On Doing

The laziest engineers I went to school with and later worked with were always so damn good https://t.co/QHU9TSKTV6

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert, 1876

Vincent Van Gogh on starting small: https://t.co/zeQNn52s6F

Mary Oliver on avoiding regrets:

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”

I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing… — Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road"

this is what peak productivity looks like https://t.co/zGDbD6bn0A

Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.

The formulas for “success” and “failure” are the same It’s the application of small actions/inactions consistently over a long time horizon The difference between these two are the infinite small decisions you make on a daily basis - those little wins compound in dramatic ways