{"id":10832,"date":"2024-03-26T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10832"},"modified":"2024-03-30T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T23:14:14","slug":"cult-of-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10832","title":{"rendered":"Cult of Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@bre\/the-cult-of-done-manifesto-724ca1c2ff13\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@bre\/the-cult-of-done-manifesto-724ca1c2ff13\">Cult of Done<\/a>&#8216; movement went through the maker and entrepreneurial worlds after it was written in 2009. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasedison.org\/edison-quotes#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20have%20not%20failed.,that%20won't%20work.%E2%80%9D\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thomasedison.org\/edison-quotes#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20have%20not%20failed.,that%20won't%20work.%E2%80%9D\">ideas are not new<\/a>, but like all things mid-2000&#8217;s, everyone was tripping all over themselves to make themselves seem like an <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2612\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2612\">thought leader<\/a> with (oft times comically ego-driven) exercises like defining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=at085Op84Oc\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=at085Op84Oc\">disruption theory<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bJQj1uKtnus?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few reflective notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>&#8220;Doing something makes you right&#8221;<\/strong> <br>This is dangerously simplistic to to the point of me saying this is wrong. I know that people say &#8216;right&#8217; as in &#8216;it works in the marketplace&#8217;, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10562\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10562\">people that do things definitely change the world compared to armchair critics<\/a>. <br>But the word &#8216;right&#8217; carries moral connotation that is confused in today&#8217;s relativistic world. Action is better than inaction. The other points in the video about procrastination and <a href=\"https:\/\/excellentjourney.net\/2015\/03\/04\/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/excellentjourney.net\/2015\/03\/04\/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality\/\">awaiting perfection (<\/a>from the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaking\/dp\/0961454733\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Fear-Observations-Rewards-Artmaking\/dp\/0961454733\">Art &amp; Fear<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/excellentjourney.net\/2015\/03\/04\/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/excellentjourney.net\/2015\/03\/04\/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality\/\">discussion)<\/a> are perfectly correct and great observations. But nobody would agree that Hitler &#8216;doing something&#8217; about the state Germany after WW1 made him right. Just &#8216;doing something&#8217; by inventing social media has turned out to have far-reaching negative impacts on society, mental health, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/11\/09\/facebooks-co-founder-blasts-social-media-it-literally-changes-your-relationship-with-society\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/11\/09\/facebooks-co-founder-blasts-social-media-it-literally-changes-your-relationship-with-society\/\">many of it&#8217;s founders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2018\/04\/an-apology-for-the-internet-from-the-people-who-built-it.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2018\/04\/an-apology-for-the-internet-from-the-people-who-built-it.html\">now actively work against what they have made<\/a> and claimed it <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/02\/21\/ousted-cofounder-controversial-social-app-parler-launch-new-platform-hedgehog-tech\/amp\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/02\/21\/ousted-cofounder-controversial-social-app-parler-launch-new-platform-hedgehog-tech\/amp\/\">was their biggest mistakes<\/a>. <br>This kind of thinking is the <em>ethical <\/em>equivalent of &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Might_makes_right\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Might_makes_right\">might makes right<\/a>&#8216;. Yes, we should be highly motivated to action and being first to the marketplace often defines the winners. It&#8217;s clear doing nothing changes nothing. But all you can really saying is that &#8216;doing something creates a thing than isn&#8217;t here today&#8217;. But doing something\/action, in itself, does not make you morally &#8216;right&#8217;.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>When you release something into the world &#8211; you&#8217;ve lost control of it. Accept this<\/strong>. <br>This is true &#8211; which is why it&#8217;s a very good idea to think out what you&#8217;re doing before unleashing it on others. I have had a number of ideas that would likely be successful in the market, but absolutely terrible for society. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator-ebook\/dp\/B0074VTHH0\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator-ebook\/dp\/B0074VTHH0\">Others have created social media monsters<\/a> and it&#8217;s created some of the worst parts of the society we live in today (lack of dialog, lack of respect for others&#8217; opinions, justifying violence).<br>This is also a warning about coder meetups and contests. Once you show or work on an idea in public, or work on it with others without an NDA or protections, it&#8217;s public domain. The race is on to get it done first if you already lost your public disclosure protection. It&#8217;s a good idea to patent or copyright anything that could potentially be really amazing. <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fake it until you make it<\/strong> &#8211; What this is supposed to do is help encourage you that you&#8217;re good enough to figure something out. However, there is a difference between <em>faking knowledge<\/em> and giving yourself the confidence to <em>learn while doing<\/em>. <br>For a couple hundred years, scientists called this the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencebuddies.org\/science-fair-projects\/science-fair\/steps-of-the-scientific-method\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sciencebuddies.org\/science-fair-projects\/science-fair\/steps-of-the-scientific-method\">scientific method<\/a>&#8216;. It starts, however, when you <em>first admit you do not know something<\/em>. You make some assertions and then try to prove them out with intellectual honesty, and transparency of learning while running repeatable experiments. That&#8217;s different than someone that <em>pretends and asserts<\/em> they do know how to do something. The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9369\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9369\">30 under 30 scandals<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fyre_Festival\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fyre_Festival\">Fyre Festival<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-trial-verdict\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sam-bankman-fried-trial-verdict\/\">FTX&#8217;s implosion<\/a> are all great examples of when people faked it and did NOT make it (well, they made it into federal prison). Start by admitting you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re doing and then use healthy skepticism until you prove the idea out. You start from a position of confident humility. That&#8217;s worked in science for hundreds of years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/excellentjourney.net\/2015\/03\/04\/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality\/\">https:\/\/excellentjourney.net\/2015\/03\/04\/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/02\/21\/ousted-cofounder-controversial-social-app-parler-launch-new-platform-hedgehog-tech\/amp\/\">https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/02\/21\/ousted-cofounder-controversial-social-app-parler-launch-new-platform-hedgehog-tech\/amp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Cult of Done&#8216; movement went through the maker and entrepreneurial worlds after it was written in 2009. These ideas are not new, but like all things mid-2000&#8217;s, everyone was tripping all over themselves to make themselves seem like an thought leader with (oft times comically ego-driven) exercises like defining disruption theory. 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