Building Something

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

– John Steinbeck

It’s a real mind fuck and it makes me feel complicit in something terrible that hurts people. It makes me feel complicit in the thing that hurt ME. It’s like I morph into an avatar for the very thing I spend my entire career and life fighting against. Like, while I’m trying to detox, I’m actively poisoning other people.

Here are a few more questions a business owner, in any industry, might consider:

What considerations did you take when determining your product / service price?

How does pricing determine your potential customer base, and what are the repercussions of serving only those customers?

Is the product you're selling addressing a genuine need, or is it oppor... See more

Even now, when I’m lucky enough to be able to write exactly what I want to write with very few external constraints, writing often feels difficult for me in the same way it did when I was pumping out listicles — slow, sticky, clunky, painful, humiliating. I wonder if this, too, is part of the appeal of AI: it is so often humiliating to push up agai... See more

Take a look! 📌

This isn't about lowering our ambitions - it's about elevating them. Trading the superficial for the substantial, rigidity for resilience, and the exhausting pursuit of "crushing it" for the satisfaction of building something meaningful. Because perhaps true success isn't measured in inbox zeros, but in creating a life that doesn't feel like someth... See more

From one of my favorite Hacker News comments ever, by @Jonathan_Blow: https://t.co/uJgib4x6El

At any given time, you’re either pre–heavy thing or post–heavy thing. You’ve either made something weighty already, or you haven’t. Pre–heavy thing people are still searching, experimenting, iterating. Post–heavy thing people have crossed the threshold, and it shows. They’ve made something substantial—something that commands respect, inspires other... See more