Done Yet Never Done
Seth Godin on the inbox mentality needs a little clarification for solo practitioners. We who fill our own in-boxes need to keep them empty as well as keeping them filled. I followed the careers of a bunch of Guy Kawasaki’s devotees during the last bubble, and saw far too many who thought they’d make a killing by being “idea people” while remaining isolated. Many of them, I think, had good ideas, but needed the discipline of emptying the in-boxes they themselves had filled. Even the “simple” matter of breaking out of isolation requires grunt work amounting to hundreds of tasks a month.