Uneventful Day

Either I'm too busy working the past couple of days to find interesting stuff out there, or the internet is going through an interesting-stuff recession.

Its like being captain of a starship with nothing to do but peruse your antique hardcover books.

Cult of Done, cont'd

For the more visual amongst us, James Provost made the awesome poster for the Cult of Done Manifesto. (thanks, Boing Boing)

A Little local flavor

At the Bergen Street stop on the F and G lines, if you exit at the front of the train on the Coney Island-bound side, you will notice this little grated window in the wall.

It changes slightly from time to time, but it is clearly not regularly inhabited by anybody.

I have Twin-Peaks-esque nightmares that I will look into it one day and see somebody in there doing something horrible and I will run away screaming.

For now, I'll just have to wonder.

Oh. And it smells badly of mildew.

For those who missed him live...

...here is david Byrne on videotape:

how to start a blog

apparently, I just did it.

I'm a little nervous, but I'll start out with something that got me started on this. A little inspiration, then:

This comes from Bre Pettis, who has come up with The Manifesto of the Cult of Done:

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.