don’t be discouraged

weathering the ups and downs of creative projects, life, relationships. one brick at a time.

“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

David Pennington

from a founder:

“Momentum is a powerful thing

I genuinely think going from $10k to $200k MRR was way easier than going from 0 to $10K

Simply because back then we had slow progress and zero momentum”

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Rejection letter to U2’s Bono (1979):

“You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

Some things just take time: compounding, craftsmanship, and good judgment.

In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching... See more

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The legendary designer Paula Scher said, “I still [a little over 5 decades into her career] make things that are pretty awful. It’s part of the process. You have periods of tremendous productivity and other periods where you’re fallow. The fallow periods are really important because that’s where you’re figuring something it out. You have to work... See more

Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Swiss Cheese, in the Heights, Wylie Dufresne, STORY, Owning Your Style, and the Fallow Periods

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