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.
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
“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”
-Sarah Manguso
"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)
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.