the start of an idea
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
sari and
the start of an idea
"Paying rapt attention, whether to a trout stream or a novel, a do-it-yourself project or a prayer, increases your capacity for concentration, expands your inner boundaries, and lifts your spirits, but more important, it simply makes you feel that life is worth living." (Winifred Gallagher, Rapt)
"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence"
- George Saunders
(good advice in general)
sari and
I think a lot about how we don’t have anything in software in the category of luxury.
https://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.
Evolution is powerful. It gives us the chance to revise, edit and do what works while removing what doesn’t.
Once we realize that there is almost no chance we’ll get it right the first time, we can embrace the opportunity to sign up for better instead of perfect.
Get it wrong the first time.
Then make it better.
Once we realize that there is almost no chance we’ll get it right the first time, we can embrace the opportunity to sign up for better instead of perfect.
Get it wrong the first time.
Then make it better.
Getting it right the first time
We started raw; our hearts and minds got boiled by constraints, mistakes, feedback, and challenges; these days we’re calmly cleaning up.
iA Writer 5: From Raw to Cooked to Sushi
Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might
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