Good things take time
Reframing expectations about how long it takes to do good work
Good things take time
Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
How long does it take to write a post/essay?
How Life Sciences Actually Work: 2 weeks non-stop, so around 100-150 hours of combined thinking and writing
How to make friends over the internet: 12 hours over 2 days
A single Quarterly links post: usually 15 hours over a few days
Doing Good Better post: >100 hours over 6 weeks
Why You Should Start a Blog Ri... See more
How Life Sciences Actually Work: 2 weeks non-stop, so around 100-150 hours of combined thinking and writing
How to make friends over the internet: 12 hours over 2 days
A single Quarterly links post: usually 15 hours over a few days
Doing Good Better post: >100 hours over 6 weeks
Why You Should Start a Blog Ri... See more
Blog posts that have resonated at scale
Sociology professor Daniel Chambliss, who spent years researching the qualities of elite swimmers, on what creates excellence: "Excellence is mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together
... See more“How did you accomplish that?”
“Same as everything else. Gradually, then all at once.”
“Same as everything else. Gradually, then all at once.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the bottleneck to achieving results, the discomfort of growth, and friendship
Self compassion
"Clarity is the elimination of mental clutter. Agility is the elimination of physical clutter. Tranquility is the elimination of spiritual clutter."
James Clear
So, you want to write something…
2019-07-31
Almost all the writing I’m most proud of was started early in the afternoon and finished at whatever the natural stopping point was, generally between 6 PM and 2 AM.
Patrick Mckenzie (perma)
I have more than 100 text files in my “drafts” folder. Some of them consist only of a few lines; some are hundreds and ... See more
2019-07-31
Almost all the writing I’m most proud of was started early in the afternoon and finished at whatever the natural stopping point was, generally between 6 PM and 2 AM.
Patrick Mckenzie (perma)
I have more than 100 text files in my “drafts” folder. Some of them consist only of a few lines; some are hundreds and ... See more
Pre work required to even decide which idea to work on
Produce something wonderful. What are we optimizing for?
Self compassion