Commitment
Musings on committing and continually showing up to a place, a profession, or a person in an age of endless opportunities + persevering - even and especially when it's hard.
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Commitment
Efforts and Goals and Joy
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Your job is to make ideas come to life. The first step is tocommit. Commit early. Commit often.
Javier Grillo-Marxuach • 11 laws of showrunning
my little life of optionality—my malleable, absorbent dunnage which lessens the shock of surprises, avoids pain and prevents breakage. No commitments, nobody counting on me, no one to disappoint and no one to disappoint me. Still, if life becomes intolerable—a measure which is lowered with each available treatment, each magical distraction—I have... See more
Pain & Surprise
beautifully strung together words on the curse of optionality and how staying put is progress.
Commitments become easier when you realize that, after enough wandering, the grass is unlikely to be greener, pursuing novelty has diminishing returns, and continuous optimizing comes at the cost of compounding—and nearly everything great compounds
Erik Torenbergtwitter.comthe teams best positioned to endure a bold journey are those in which the benefits from the sensation of progress outweigh the costs of working amidst uncertainty, anonymity, and anxiety.
if progress is a sufficient reward, you can be losing for a long time and still win.
scott belskytwitter.comThe great thing about achieving small things is that you know the big things are just as achievable, they just take more time.
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You don't need a new idea
You need the time and resources to stick with the last new idea long enough for it to see some results https://t.co/v7cpg7XcDL
