Rage against the machine
Episode one
Rage against the machine
Develop a habit of working on your own projects. Don't let "work" mean something other people tell you to do. If you do manage to do great work one day, it will probably be on a project of your own. It may be within some bigger project, but you'll be driving your part of it.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
This should follow from the excitingness rule. Obviously the most exciting story to write will be the one you want to read. The reason I mention this case explicitly is that so many people get it wrong. Instead of making what they want, they try to make what some imaginary, more sophisticated audience wants. And once you go down that route, you're ... See more
This is the exact point I was trying to make - what's the point in creating for an imaginary exacting audience, especially when you can create for yourself instead.
The way to figure out what to work on is by working. If you're not sure what to work on, guess. But pick something and get going. You'll probably guess wrong some of the time, but that's fine. It's good to know about multiple things; some of the biggest discoveries come from noticing connections between different fields.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Choosing to kickstart a podcast despite the weight of everything else that I’ve started in the past and abandoned… can’t say halfway, cause I don’t know where I was going with them and how far along I was on the journey. So. Yeah.
One reason per-project procrastination is so dangerous is that it usually camouflages itself as work. You're not just sitting around doing nothing; you're working industriously on something else. So per-project procrastination doesn't set off the alarms that per-day procrastination does. You're too busy to notice it.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Doing my “main work” has kept me from doing “my work”
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