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
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
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, chaos and struggle. Everything breaks and changes all the time. Don't get... See more
Kaspars Dancisx.comdon’t get doscouraged by thought leaders that tend to hide the complexity and nuance and constant doubt that comes from building
The ultimate competitive advantage is actually giving a shit about the problem you're working on. When Airbnb had just a few dozen employees, Rocket Internet raised $90 million and hired hundreds of people to clone and crush them.
Stew Fortier • Tweet
millions of dollars of funding can't compete with a company having a soul
In 1964, on a folk tour around England, Bob Dylan considered quitting.
He said,
“I play these concerts, and I ask myself: ‘Would you come see me tonight?’ and I have to truthfully say: ‘No, I wouldn’t come...'"
Burnt out and ready to quit playing music, Dylan... See more
andrea and
phoebe and
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
"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