*Awkward Silence*… So… how about that internet?
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Dec
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Jul
All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
John Perry, structuredprocrastination.com
23
Jul
Looking for ways that I can sell out but no one wants to buy in.
I’m looking at this piece and saying to myself, “Damn, I wish I could still write like that…” But I can’t. When I wrote that, I was a lot more poor, unemployed and desperate than I am now. No money or success can replace the artistic edge that prolonged poverty & under-achievement gives you. Sad but true.
I always look back at stuff I’ve written years ago and think where did that funny smart guy go? Worst thing is I’m not yet a success by any measure so am still suffering for the sake of my “art” but it is not getting any better.
17
Jul
via Big Contrarian
09
Jul
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
06
Jul
The real enemy ofwritingcreating is talk.
David Malouf, quoted by Salman Rushdie and rudely edited by me, who adds:
“He warns, particularly, of the dangers of speaking about work in progress. When writing, one is best advised to keep one’s mouth shut, so that words flow out, instead, through one’s fingers.”
mills added good stuff, particularly:
I think the above quote explains it: artists, and indeed people inclined to action, know that talk drains us of motivational energy, weakens our will. Talk of ideas makes us feel as though the ideas have been implemented; talk of musical composition processes substitutes for composition; talk of writing uses up the words we need for the writing, diminishing the inspiration we need.
I’ve found that the same concept applies to launching websites.
Although there could be another factor here in addition to what’s been said above. Receiving negative feedback (or no feedback at all, which is the same as negative feedback), can kill an idea for me that I was intensely excited about only minutes earlier. Now, you might think, “well, that’s good. You saved time by not implementing a bad idea. People’s opinions of an idea that you’ve expressed but not fully put into useable production is important,” but I think that’s total bullshit.
It’s not that I don’t care about the opinions of prospective users. I care about it a little too much, perhaps. But showing a flat PNG file in place of a working website seems a bit like dancing about architecture. Really though, if I’m excited about something, I want to see it finished. I’d rather learn it was a stupid idea after I’ve gotten it completely out of my system by making it.
Next site.
(via topherchris)
26
Jun
what matters is not experience per se but “effortful study,” which entails continually tackling challenges that lie just beyond one’s competence
23
Jun
I hate having to experience opportunity cost in real life. Was so much more fun learning about it and applying it to imagined scenarios during economics tutorials at university.
18
Jun
The best measure of the value of time is not money but waste. Having more of the former does not guarantee less of the latter.
You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry on people underestimating the power of depression
(via paperflowers + lozzy)
05
Jun
Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?
04
Jun
I think I miss doing tech support.
It’s been 18 months since I’ve been away from the help desk barrage but I’ve been answering easy internets/computer questions of people I don’t know via re-blogs and the other day on the radio I agreed to talk people through the best ways to deal with and eliminate email spam. Doing anything like that used to make me want to cry but now I actually half enjoy it.
I figure it only seems good because people you randomly help on the internet and radio better communicate their problem and appreciate any assistance compared to the self-entitled psycho customers who were always confused and annoyed so wanted to take it out on anyone even though the support issues invariably in 90% of cases were because of user issues (eg. they couldn’t type their email address correctly or didn’t read basic set up instructions or just had no knowledge of the service being provided). I hated them and they hated me so each phone call and email was like like a fight. Good times. Will definitely go back to it when hell freezes over, George W Bush is elected to a third term in November 2008, insert another unlikely melodramatic statement, etc.
22
May
A lot of successful people are risk-takers. Unless you’re willing to do that… to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.
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