doing the thing

When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I’m trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something for myself. It feels dishonest and disrespectful of where I’m at. I’m not the best, so why should I try to make the best things? I’m just me, so I should make me things.

Speaking towards this goal, the next lesson I’ve come to learn is that imagining the New Internet is not the same as building it. In my time around the archipelago of internet reform there have been no shortage of ambitious ideas. In the process of implementing said ideas, it was revealed time and time again that ambitiousness does not equal practi... See more

I think that talking about agency and introspection separately is misguided. People who emphasize how to get things done, and move faster, and reach higher levels of mastery—agency without introspection—tend to get pulled into fierce yet boring status competitions. People who emphasize introspection and emotions but without a problem solving mental... See more

Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.

. “In general, I like doing action — not saying what should happen, but doing what should happen,” Baskin says. “I think if I hadn’t staged the onigiri, and I had just kept saying, ‘We should have onigiri,’ I think we would stay dreaming, as opposed to actually going through a staged reality. I think that that creates more of a deeper excitement wh... See more

95% of content consumption is procrastination disguised as productivity.

Most people waste hundreds of hours consuming “just-in-case” content because it’s “interesting.”

Instead, you should consume "just-in-time" to answer a question keeping you from moving forward.

"The shortest answer is doing the thing." - Ernest Hemingway

Stop talking about the thing. Stop asking about the thing. Stop gathering more information about the thing.

Just do the thing.

ze frank, first and best vlogger, had a concept called "brain crack"

brain crack is that amazing idea you've been holding onto that you'll get to Later so you can Do It Right

it addicts you bc the more you build it up the less likely you'll ever do it

poast your brain crack!

Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.

Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing

the thing.

Writing a banger tweet about how you're going to ... See more