do the thing

There are a lot of things I want to do. I want to create and build and make and write.

And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.

Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it a... See more

Don't force meeting your heroes Make better stuff And they'll want to meet you

“DOING SOMETHING It is so much easier to not do something than to do something. Even the smallest task, like filling out a Scholastic Books order form or putting away the butter, requires time, focus, and follow-through. It’s astounding, actually, that anything gets done at all, by anyone. But then, let’s say you finally are prepared and determined

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but what if my investment is an experiment, a question to which I don’t yet want the answer? What if I trust that ideas come on their own time?

Not caring what other people think and not linking my creativity to my being liked — these are non-negotiables.

When we’re focused on avoiding difficult thoughts and feelings, we’re not focused on moving toward what we care about.

choices are like a mini-death, where we lose a possibility of what our lives and work might become.

"You just have to trust that you are drawing a line round something and you don't know where the line is going to end. If you already know what shape you're drawing then you are not developing your craft." — Es Devlin

"Sometimes when you make yourself do one thing, you are sort of daring yourself to do the other. I was making myself read, when all I really wanted to do was make." — Es Devlin