don’t be discouraged
weathering the ups and downs of creative projects, life, relationships. one brick at a time.
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don’t be discouraged
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.
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“Generally everyone is misunderstood, and you realize it’s not your job to make people understand you,” Le Bon said. “It’s your job to work and align yourself with your own integrity. I think that’s even harder to harness when you’re an artist as big as Annie. But she does.”
St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness
Confession — I get inferiority complex from all these "How X builds product" posts by @lennysan. Everybody appear to have their shit together, all organized and confident. My experience has been very different. If you want to do something new and hard, it's a constant doubt,… Show more
don’t get doscouraged by thought leaders that tend to hide the complexity and nuance and constant doubt that comes from building
The story of Sylvester Stallone in 1975 sitting down to write a screenplay and, three and a half days later, emerging with the full script for Rocky:
“At that time, I must admit, my life was definitely on the wane, at least professionally, I was emotionally, spiritually, physically, bankrupt. So I had $106, rent was $300, I had a pregnant wife—you m
In 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to sell Google for $750,000.
They were rejected.
Today, their combined stake in the company is worth $247 billion.
the fallacy of “we tried that, didn’t work” via dhh:
no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible.
That just because someone, somewhere, one time attempted something similar and failed, nobody else should try. That lowering our collectiv
... See more"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)