doing the thing
random thoughts about doing/creating/making
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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.
I don’t like making the best things - internetVin
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... See more
On the difference between thinkers and doers
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.
James Clear • 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...
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.
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.
Dickie Bush 🚢 • Tweet
Of course, the stories you tell yourself are useless if you don’t take action. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,” the psychologist William James wrote, no matter how good one’s stories may be, “if one [does not] act, one’s life may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” One’s life, as James puts it, “is an aggregate of
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. “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... See more