[toto444]

That was actually a pleasant read. I especially like the conclusion to which I can relate.

> If you're stuck for ideas, I recommend just building something; anything; even if it's terrible, and I guarantee a better idea will pop into your brain shortly after.

I have been working on a long project for a few years now and it will not be finished before another few years and I envy the speed at which the author gets feedback after he launches his products.

[_whiteCaps_]

Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty, etc) has some advice on this:

> Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat and replace it with a “petty critic” hat and go to town on that poor hack’s draft and that’s your second draft.

https://www.vulture.com/2016/11/read-dan-harmons-excellent-a...

[lancesells]

That conclusion is really applicable to just about everything. Want to start woodworking? Start building something. Want to become a runner? Start running. Want to be a musician? Start making some songs.

A lot of the initial tries will be terrible but it only gets better from there.

[giarc]

When I lived in an apartment building, a guy in the next building decided he wanted to learn to play the saxophone and practiced on his balcony everyday. I hate the advice "just start playing" :)

[lancesells]

Luckily he wasn't interested in explosives. Ha

[samwillis]

I completely agree with this, I almost have too many ideas and find combining them and building “something” usually results in filtering out the bad ones and brining the better ones to the forefront. Sometimes you just find that something “new” and better comes out of the process of trying to build “anything”.