The Cult of Done

Posted by Laurie on 3/03/10 • Categorized as Personal

I totally stole this from Bre Pettis, but it’s awesome so worth repeating

The Cult of Done Manifesto

There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
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.
Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
Once you’re done you can throw it away.
Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
Destruction is a variant of done.
If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
Done is the engine of more.

gwynm

#s 1, 4, 6 and 8 are useful (but not new)
#s 2, 3, 7 and 13 are meaningless without further explanation
#s 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are dangerously wrong
http://wildfalcon.com Wildfalcon

Your responses require further explanation :-)
gwynm

I think they're dangerous overgeneralisations. I've pulled things out of my Someday file that'd been there more than a week. Doing something _right_ makes you right – doing something wrong just to do something is sometimes useful but no good as a general rule. And number 12? That seems to undermine the whole thing. Ideas are cheap.