>If you’re doing something with real potential, you’re also going to encounter real friction. Day to day, doing anything useful involves mostly friction. Reality turns out to be offensively boring and slow and incremental.
Yeah this really resonates. I've often felt the pull to ditch the thing I've been doing for the past ~4 years for a dazzling new Higher Impact whatever, but every time the value prop of the new thing just didn't seem high enough compared to digging in to my comparative advantage
>If you’re doing something with real potential, you’re also going to encounter real friction. Day to day, doing anything useful involves mostly friction. Reality turns out to be offensively boring and slow and incremental.
Yeah this really resonates. I've often felt the pull to ditch the thing I've been doing for the past ~4 years for a dazzling new Higher Impact whatever, but every time the value prop of the new thing just didn't seem high enough compared to digging in to my comparative advantage
sounds like you're nailing it
> 90%+ of my advice boils down to “Be more specific”.
I'm stealing this one.