Growth

The key is that you’ll probably do your best work when your’ve earned your colleagues’ trust, which is the hidden value of staying put. This is especially true if your job involves making good decisions vs. doing something physical with your body. Good decisions require lots of quiet time alone in your head, maybe sitting on the couch thinking or g... See more

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

― Anne Bogart

One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe you’l... See more

I think about this a lot: how learning needs to be tied to something real. Not just deadlines but stakes. It doesn’t have to be high pressure, but there has to be a reason to care. Without that, it’s easy to get stuck in a loop of tutorials and practice for the sake of practice.

And honestly, there’s something about practice for its own sake that fe... See more

I get that some people might see this differently. Maybe they’d say tying learning to deadlines or stakes adds too much pressure. And they’re not wrong—pressure can be a lot. But it’s also what makes you show up. It’s what forces you to stop thinking about how to start and actually start. And I don’t think the pressure has to kill the joy. The joy ... See more

The thing about being self-taught is that it often comes with a quiet sense of inferiority. Not because you are inferior, but because you’re convinced there’s something you skipped over—something a structured process would have taught you.