Get Excited and Make Things

[prog]

This SXSW talk from Merlin "43folders" Mann and John "Daring Fireball" Gruber has become my personal north star for the moment. (Here is a transscript.)

It boils down to this: If you wanna publish something awesome on the internet, figure out what really and truly obsesses you. Then follow it. Let your desire to be awesome lead you, versus your desire for ad clickthroughs. If you succeed, then further success shall come.

This is lining up to be my guiding principle for a lot of what I hope to do in the foreseeable future.

(Image credit: moleitau, after this.)

Comments

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

I have a simpler edict:

If you wanna publish something awesome on the internet, go ahead and do it.

Indeed

[prog.livejournal.com]

The talk is kind of an extended corollary upon this; taking it from "here's this cool thing I made" to becoming one of the internet's most credible go-to guys on whatever that thing is that you're doing. This mostly just involves doing it for the sake of doing it, and to hell with the CPM.