The Cult of Done Manifesto

From Bre Pettis.

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.


Heather has often noted how I have a tendency to be an "instant expert" in a field that I've just seemingly picked up. I'd bet numbers 4, 8, 9, and 10 are big players in the truth of that observation about me.

It's not always about being right or having the perfect answer. The Universe is built such that if we get "close enough" we can call it done.