"Consummate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse."
— Joseph Conrad, Victory
"I don’t have any clear preferences in chess. I do what I think circumstances require of me – I attack, defend or go into the endgame. Having preferences means having weaknesses."
"If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue."
"We hurry and push and hustle, for the good of humanity! ‘The world is becoming too noisy, too commercial!’ groans some solitary thinker. ‘Undoubtedly it is, but the noise of waggons bearing bread to starving humanity is of more value than tranquillity of soul,’ replies another triumphantly, and passes on with an air of pride."
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Done is best…
It is better than “thinking about.” It is better than “started.” It is better than “perfect.”
“Done is better than perfect,” but that doesn’t mean that to never look back at what you did. Finish something and push it out the door, show it to the world.
After that you have choices: stop, iterate, or start something new.
Photo credit: Facebook’s Analog Research Lab via Cuban Council
