I very much relate to your "minimum viable product" mentality around just shipping as quickly as possible to get some volume out there. It's such a hard thing to judge oneself on because it's really hard to judge the quality of your own work, or at least it is for me. But I do find that if I back up and remember I am doing this for the love of the thing then I don't feel as pressured to ship ASAP. When this turns into a job, well I'll reassess.
Love that! Yeah, I think even just taking a very practical step can help. When a project feels pretty much done, what if instead of hitting publish, we just spend one more day/session on it. Edit the text/proof read one more time, watch the video 3 more times and tweak even the slightest thing to make it 1% better, etc. That self control of waiting one more day or even leaving it alone for a time and coming back to it. Idk the perfect formula but there is at least an effort that can be made to not simply hit publish once there is some amount of substance there, and instead forcing ourself to tweak a bit more to get it closer to what we first imagined.
Congrats! What a wonderful gift.
I very much relate to your "minimum viable product" mentality around just shipping as quickly as possible to get some volume out there. It's such a hard thing to judge oneself on because it's really hard to judge the quality of your own work, or at least it is for me. But I do find that if I back up and remember I am doing this for the love of the thing then I don't feel as pressured to ship ASAP. When this turns into a job, well I'll reassess.
Love that! Yeah, I think even just taking a very practical step can help. When a project feels pretty much done, what if instead of hitting publish, we just spend one more day/session on it. Edit the text/proof read one more time, watch the video 3 more times and tweak even the slightest thing to make it 1% better, etc. That self control of waiting one more day or even leaving it alone for a time and coming back to it. Idk the perfect formula but there is at least an effort that can be made to not simply hit publish once there is some amount of substance there, and instead forcing ourself to tweak a bit more to get it closer to what we first imagined.
Congratulations.
Thanks Brian!
Congrats! As you know, DAD is number one job. The rest is much less important.