Lessons
Principles I keep coming back to. Some lifted from books and essays, mostly learned by trying things and getting them wrong.
- I
Action eliminates doubt.
Starting is always worse in your head than in reality. The second you begin shipping, the doubt collapses. You have something to push against instead of something to imagine.
— lived
- II
Do more, think less.
It's better to do things without optimizing than to optimize for everything and do nothing. The optimizer's trap is a slow way to quit without admitting it.
— lived
- III
Stop preparing to do the thing.
“Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.”
- IV
Momentum breaks fast.
Two days off is never two days. It's a slope.
“Skipping one day is a mistake. Skipping two days is the start of a new habit.”
- V
The curve compounds once you show up long enough.
A week into any new domain, it feels alien. AI did, when I started with zero background. Three weeks in, you're learning faster than you can measure. Keep showing up; the slope steepens.
- VI
Entrepreneurship is the most complete education.
Shipping these taught me entrepreneurship isn't just building. You finance, market, sell, distribute, recruit. Every realm of the business, or nothing ships. That's why I want it: I have to learn every realm.
— lived