motivation to build stuff in public
This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: "Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes
... See moreScott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen
Steve Jobs once said, “Real artists ship.”
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
You may be right, but that doesn’t mean that people will care. Or pay attention. Or take action.
Just because you’re right, doesn’t mean they’re going to listen.
It takes more than being right to earn attention and action.
Just because you’re right, doesn’t mean they’re going to listen.
It takes more than being right to earn attention and action.
Just because you’re right…
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
History’s heroes know something the rest of us don’t: fear isn’t the enemy; inaction is. What we have to learn to do is lean into the things that hold us back, to move through the pain and push forward.
Jeff Goins • Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Navaltwitter.comWe need to recognize that idleness, not work, is the true curse, and that good work affords us one of our best opportunities to become better versions of ourselves and make meaningful contributions to the lives of others.
The Work Cure – Richard Gunderman
You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.