motivation to build stuff in public
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.
References obstruct your bias toward action. It is common that Action Steps get lost in the shuffle of nonactionable stuff. The more energy you spend on scribbling down notes, the more liable you are to miss the opportunity to capture valuable Action Steps. Even if you do manage to write the Action Steps down, they often become obscured amidst sket
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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
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
Profound change rarely comes from direct interventions in the world. Rather, it comes from working indirectly over time, helping people engage consciously to develop their own understanding, motivations, aspirations, and will.
Carol Sanford • Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans
the courage needed to engage in battle was indistinguishable from love.
Phil Jackson • Eleven Rings
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
-David Ogilvy
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…
You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.