the start of an idea
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
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the start of an idea
social media and podcasts might give you the illusion that you can start a business or start building an audience and take off right away. you should expect your new career to take 1,000 days to replace what you could have made in your old one. If you’re not willing to wait 1,000 days for your new career to work, don’t bother starting.
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
don’t judge too soon. experimenting and playing is where surprises hide.
By unfolding I mean “interrogating the conclusion to come up with an explanation of why it could be true.” What premises and reasoning chains leads to this conclusion? The explanation isn’t meant to prove that your conclusion was right. It is just a way of unpacking it.
By unfolding a claim into an explanation, you spread it on a “wider front” (to... See more
By unfolding a claim into an explanation, you spread it on a “wider front” (to... See more
Henrik Karlsson • How to Think in Writing
explanation of unfolding concepts
"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
Once you've found something you're excessively interested in, the next step is to learn enough about it to get you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. Knowledge expands fractally, and from a distance its edges look smooth, but once you learn enough to get close to one, they turn out to be full of gaps.