work & share with the garage door public

This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else. Because they're just doing things. And they get better so much quicker. So I think that's a message I want to give to the world. You're good to go. Just start doing things.

Isabel Unraveled

The whole waiting until we get over the frictional ickiness that we have with offering something to the world or not having the perfect words for it – that was definitely a block for me. But it's just delaying the delivery of our gifts and our potential to the world. Like, you are good to go. You are ready. There won’t be a perfect moment or... See more

Alex Dobrenko • Get over your ick and do the thing

Isabel Unravaled

the reason to share your creations publicly isn’t to convince the world that you are brilliant, it is to show yourself that it is safe to be seen

Isabel🌻x.com

Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them.

The big picture is hiding in the details.

Scott Adams

But the reason you’re not cool is because you’re trying to be cool.

First imitate, then intuit

People who read widely and attentively—and then publish the results of their reading—are also arguably performing research as a leisure activity.

Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity

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Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.” Amateurs fit the same bill: They’re just regular people who get

Celine Nguyen • Everything I Read in February 2025

Think of everything as work in progress and share it without the pressure of trying to make it perfect