The Cult of Done

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I learned of this from the following youtube link: Can't start? Start here: Cult of Done

Principles

  1. There are 3 states of being. Not knowing, action, and completion.
  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
  3. There is no editing stage.
  4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you are doing even if you don't and do it.
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
  7. Once you're done, you can throw it away.
  8. Laugh at prefection. It is boring and keeps you from being done.
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
  10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
  11. Destruction is a variant of done.
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
  13. done is the engine of more.

Reflections

  • Life is like a REPL
  • Everything is an experiment
  • May be beneficial to construct everything like a library or another thing easily extensible or patchable
  • The primary product is the change log

Author: Keshav Italia (keshavitalia0@gmail.com)

Date:

Emacs 29.1 (Org mode 9.6.6)

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