This is so spot on, from JA Westenberg, from their piece “There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.”
Social media rewards visible bursts of activity. You can post about your new productivity system, your ambitious goals, your monk mode month, locktober etc. You get likes and followers for performing optimization. But you don’t get progress.
When I think of how I started a music blog in 2001, I sometimes get confused, like… wait, was it really that long ago?
All the different people I worked with, the oppurtintues that came up, the things I fucked up, made up, and made right… I can’t believe that next year it’ll be 25 years of somehow still being in the game.
It’s absolutely not about arriving, or outrunning a bear – you just have to run faster than you friends, and never stop, I guess.
(link via Bradley Spitzer)