do what you love, but solve for distribution
time to get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion
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do what you love, but solve for distribution
from Make your Stuff by Austin Kleon:
“it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
“If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.”
“Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.”
“Teaching people
... See moreIn the months leading up to pub day, I sent approximately 8,613 emails out to friends, professional contacts, people I talked to once in a buffet line at a writing workshop 3 years ago, people who follow me on Twitter, and people who have never heard of me or my little book, offering them galleys and (in some cases!) directly begging them to cover ... See more
Sara Petersen • Some truths about writing a book
surrender to the cringe
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now t... See more
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now t... See more
Cissy Hu • Year of doing the damn thing
As I prepare to transition from my “heads down building a product” era to “I’ve worked so hard to build this thing, get over yourself and engage in some cringey self-promotion” era I need to fully embrace Austin Kleon’s mantra: “it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
Along those lines, this quote stopped me in my
... See moreWhen you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let it go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes end up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. The only art the world gets to enjoy is from creators wh... See more
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let it go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes end up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. The only art the world gets to enjoy is from creators wh
... See moreCeline Nguyen • everything i read in february 2025
Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.” Amateurs fit the same bill: They’re just regular people who get
... See moreCeline Nguyen • everything i read in february 2025
Think of everything as work in progress and share it without the pressure of trying to make it perfect