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The Cult of Done Manifesto

Good advice for procrastinators and perpetual project-starters like ourselves.

A mention over at Rhizome reminded me of this nice manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, which now also has a great accompanying poster by James Provost.

The Cult of Done Manifesto

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.

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AndreaMay 9, 2011
 

More Shirt-Sleeves than Pin-Stripes

Get to work! It's Monday.

We've got a busy week at DLB this week, so in lieu of my standard, more substantive Monday post, I thought I'd share a visual lesson from one of our perennial favorites, Paul Arden.

A page from 'Whatever you think, think the opposite' by Paul Arden
The "More Shirt-Sleeve than Pin-Stripe" page from Paul Arden's Whatever You Think Think the Opposite
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PaulJun 15, 2009