Cory Doctorow: Follow Your Weird
Nov. 15th, 2009 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroTor.com recently linked to this article by Cory Doctorow about the joy, and innate goodness, of doing stuff. Any stuff, no matter how mundane or inconsequential:
(Some of you will have seen this already)
www.make-digital.com/make/vol14/
It's reminded me of a lot of things that I really agree with, a way to live your life, that I'd kind of forgotten about. Believe it or not, I've always been a big believer that doing something, no matter how stupid it might seem, always, 100% of the time, wins out over not doing[1].
Rest assured that if I ever accuse you of having too much time on my hands, it's because I'm jealous that you're able to motivate yourself to do something other than work and sleep, not making fun of your endeavour.
If nothing else, doing little things that you enjoy is a good start at (in the words of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hirez ), making things (in general) less crap.
Possibly more thoughts on this later, if I ever get more articulate.
[1] Which makes me a big fat hypocrite, but that's a post for another day.
(Some of you will have seen this already)
www.make-digital.com/make/vol14/
It's reminded me of a lot of things that I really agree with, a way to live your life, that I'd kind of forgotten about. Believe it or not, I've always been a big believer that doing something, no matter how stupid it might seem, always, 100% of the time, wins out over not doing[1].
Rest assured that if I ever accuse you of having too much time on my hands, it's because I'm jealous that you're able to motivate yourself to do something other than work and sleep, not making fun of your endeavour.
If nothing else, doing little things that you enjoy is a good start at (in the words of
hirez ), making things (in general) less crap. Possibly more thoughts on this later, if I ever get more articulate.
[1] Which makes me a big fat hypocrite, but that's a post for another day.
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Date: 2009-11-16 09:34 am (UTC)A comment knitters frequently get is "Oh, I'd never have time to do that - I'm far too busy." It annoys the hell out of most of us, because these comments usually pop up when a knitter is knitting at the doctor's surgery, on a train, in a queue or suchlike... places where the person who's 'far too busy' isn't actually doing anything at all! Because people reading books aren't likely to make stupid comments, they too have something to do.