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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)

Saw this on Farrah Storr’s newsletter, an interview with Emma Gannon:

What’s one thing you wished you’d never done?

A Ted Talk. I was nervous for three months in the lead up to it and then came crashing down afterwards post-adrenaline. I’ve come to terms with the fact  I don’t enjoy public speaking in that way. 

What I love about this is the permission to just not do something.

Hustle / freelance / self employment cutlure would have us do everything as a means to promote and market ourselves.

But using the example above, at what cost?

Three months of being nervous? Being distracted with the worry of the upcoming event? Then the crash afterwards, once it’s all over?

No thanks.

Don’t want to start a TikTok? DON’T.

Don’t want to post on Instagram anymore? DON’T.

Don’t want to start an email list? DON’T.

Do what works for you.