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This. QFT.
I agree with this:
* Don’t rely on other people to remove your totally fake “distractions.â€
* Don’t rely on other people to pat your beret, re-tie your cravat, and make you a nice cocoa whenever that mean man on the internet points out that your “distractions†are totally fake. (Which they are)
* Don’t rely on other people to tell you when or whether you have enough information.
* Don’t rely on other people to define your job.
* Don’t rely on other people to “design your lifestyle.â€
* Don’t rely on other people to decide when your opinions are acceptable.
* Don’t rely on other people to tell you when you're allowed to be awesome.
* Don’t rely on other people to make you care.
* Don’t even rely on other people to tell you what you should or shouldn’t rely on.
...
Because, yeah: all of these harrowingly unsolvable problems are immune to new notebooks and less-distracting applications and shinier systems and “nicer†self-“help†and pretty much anything else that is not, specifically, you walking straight into the angriest and least convenient shitstorm you can find and getting your ass kicked until the storm gets bored with kicking it.
Then, you find an even angrier storm. Then, another. And, so on.
All that and more from an epic blog post by Merlin Mann.
* Don’t rely on other people to remove your totally fake “distractions.â€
* Don’t rely on other people to pat your beret, re-tie your cravat, and make you a nice cocoa whenever that mean man on the internet points out that your “distractions†are totally fake. (Which they are)
* Don’t rely on other people to tell you when or whether you have enough information.
* Don’t rely on other people to define your job.
* Don’t rely on other people to “design your lifestyle.â€
* Don’t rely on other people to decide when your opinions are acceptable.
* Don’t rely on other people to tell you when you're allowed to be awesome.
* Don’t rely on other people to make you care.
* Don’t even rely on other people to tell you what you should or shouldn’t rely on.
...
Because, yeah: all of these harrowingly unsolvable problems are immune to new notebooks and less-distracting applications and shinier systems and “nicer†self-“help†and pretty much anything else that is not, specifically, you walking straight into the angriest and least convenient shitstorm you can find and getting your ass kicked until the storm gets bored with kicking it.
Then, you find an even angrier storm. Then, another. And, so on.
All that and more from an epic blog post by Merlin Mann.
Comments
I actually liked his parody of the "distraction-free writing environment" software far more. It made its point far more elegantly.
Still a useful post. Summary is necessary.