july

Incumbents underestimate the opportunity cost of the untried, while innovators underestimate the amount of work it takes to friggin do anything worthwhile

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Also call it what you want, divine intervention, luck, probability - but you need the gods on your side (just like the Greeks going into battle against the Trojans) in order to prevail

Thinking you can do it alone is probably ultimately not productive. It’s not all in your control and that’s ok

But like Athena telling Odysseus that hey what’s 10 years, I could have sent you home to Ithaca long ago. For Athena; an immortal maybe 10 years is nothing, for us mere mortals it is a lot of life to live through. And so the gods will smile upon you only so often, do your best, and not die until they do

My unsolicited advice for both sides: just do it anyway because action beats inaction. 

For clarity - while action and doing seems pretty similar; there is an ocean of difference between inaction and not doing. In action is not deciding on what to do, and letting it rot — not doing, is a choice. You either choose to do or not do, and that is action