A child learns to walk by falling. Founders learn to build by launching things that don’t quite work. Writers learn to write by producing drafts they later hate.
If you fail a lot in public and keep going, you can’t cling too tightly to the idea that you’re special.
You’re forced to trade ego for iteration.
That trade turns out to be a good deal. Ego wants to protect a fixed self-image, iteration wants to improve the work.
Ambitious projects reward the latter.
Kill your ego.
Kpaxs: Real change demands ego death.
If you fail a lot in public and keep going, you can’t cling too tightly to the idea that you’re special.
You’re forced to trade ego for iteration.
That trade turns out to be a good deal. Ego wants to protect a fixed self-image, iteration wants to improve the work.
Ambitious projects reward the latter.
Kill your ego.
Kpaxs: Real change demands ego death.