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+ five things that moved me

I’ve been working a lot! A small team, good momentum on Sublime after years of slog work, keeping three children fed, alive and well, and things feel… hectic. Transitioning from the "I'm not equipped to coordinate after school schedules for three children so why am I building this ambitious piece of software" mindset to "people are paying for this thing I’ve spent years building with my sweat and tears" is a wild ride.

Right now, I have resigned myself to working without feeling bad that I’m not being social or present enough in other areas of my life because I know this is what I need to and want to be doing, and I’m not burnt out. In my experience, burnout has nothing to do with working hard and everything to do with feeling no control or impact. But it does take a lot of computer hours to create the illusion of having a good relationship to the Internet.

Keeping it short this week: one ask and a few things that moved me.

One ask

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Things that moved me

1. Zone of Interest - the movie.

2. Rachel Katz
   newsletter
   Inner Workings
   . She writes about mothering, ambition, work culture, and lots of other things in a way that reels me in every time. 

3. Most people won’t - a great short read and pick-me-up-er.

   As I prepare to transition from my “heads down building a product” era to “I’ve worked so hard to build this thing and I need to get over myself and engage in some cringey self-promotion” era I plan to fully embrace this mantra:

   Most people won’t. Which means those that do change everything.

4. Yancey Strickler
   ‘s meditations on “how to build a newthing”. I’m curating up a storm of related stuff on the start of an idea here.

5. This image I discovered on Sublime (source unknown) - which led me to an insight that feels very real to me: the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years, because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.