motivation to build stuff in public
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
... See moreScott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen
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
Steve Jobs once said, “Real artists ship.”
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
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
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
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 courage needed to engage in battle was indistinguishable from love.