the start of an idea
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
sari and
the start of an idea
I think a lot about how we don’t have anything in software in the category of luxury.
Sarah Conex.comhttps://youtu.be/it8xrIIC1cI?si=JdASJnDSetWvIlFW&t=636
(car nerd alert).
The point the journalist makes about a digital speedo replacing an analogue one is exactly this point about no such thing as luxury software.
" You never change things by fighting the existing reality. T o change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Throughlines
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read
Substack • Notes | Substack
"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
