the start of an idea

starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff

when making things becomes frictionless, starting stops meaning anything.

day 0 is loud. day 2 is real.

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

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phoebe and

More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.

– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz

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Scott Stevenson • How to Finally Make Something

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Jessica Livingston

amazon.com

Cover of Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

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If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar

Erikc Perez-Perez

"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)

Andy Weissman twitter.com

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