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Each week I get an email reminder with this quote in it and the subject "Things Are Hard": "When you can do whatever you want, you get a variant of the terror
by blatherard 12y ago
Each week I get an email reminder with this quote in it and the subject "Things Are Hard":
"When you can do whatever you want, you get a variant of the terror induced by the proverbial blank page. There are a lot of people who think the thing stopping them from writing that great novel they plan to write is the fact that their job takes up all their time. In fact what's stopping 99% of them is that writing novels is hard. When the job goes away, they see how hard."
which is part of a pg comment on an HN thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1512096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1512096
- imaginenore 12y agoI never had that problem. There are too many interesting things to read, to watch, to argue about, to learn, places to visit, things to do. Same with the ideas - I have tons of ideas, enough for decades of coding. Unfortunately most of these fun things eat up a lot time. Browsing Reddit is fun, but not productive at all.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThank you for that quote, this resonates with me strongly. One of the bigger sources of my stress is that internal narrative of "I can't do awesome things because my job takes away all my time". This quote encourages me to re-evaluate my attitude now.