I aim to be mediocre in most of my effort - Paul Millerd

Optimizing for joy and fun works far better than you’d think given how deeply we think suffering is the key to work.

It definitely wasn’t a sudden realization. It’s a little bit like having a pebble in your shoe, where you’re walking and something is off, and it’s mildly uncomfortable.”⁠1 When he got raises or promotions the discomfort would subside but never disappear. Slowly, he became more curious about that feeling and realized that despite his external success, he had become a “passive participant” in his life.

trying to monetize too much as a creator feels risky to me. there's just a long line of history of humans that risked so much just to do creative work

its such a privilege to be able to do this work as much as I do. the work is the payment itself