don’t be discouraged
weathering the ups and downs of creative projects, life, relationships. one brick at a time.
sari and
don’t be discouraged
phoebe and
Lesson #1: Great Products Expand Markets Taylor Swift moved to Nashville at 13 and went door-to-door to record labels. They all turned her down. Labels saw country music on the decline with young listeners, and didn't see a market for a teen country artist.
Rex Woodbury • Tweet
On this day in 1964: Jack Ma born
*taught himself English at age 12
*rejected from 30 jobs including KFC
*made $15/month teaching English
*rejected by Harvard 10 times
*first 2 business ventures failed
*started Alibaba with $60,000 from 18 friends
*net worth: $41.4 billion
Jon Erlichmantwitter.com
don’t be discouraged if you don’t know how to describe what you’re building. originality requires a long term willingness to be misunderstood.
Because you care. Feeling heartbroken, enraged, depleted, burned out — simply feeling — stems from care. That is a beautiful thing. The most beautiful thing. Don’t lose touch with it.
Caroline Cala Donofrio • Reasons to Keep Going
the honesty here is breathtaking - from the founder of daylight.computer
“One of the tragedies of doing humane tech is you lose the humanity in the process of surviving the world, of trying to build something, of trying to get it funded”
"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence"
- George Saunders
(good advice in general)
Andy Weissmantwitter.com