I don’t get the chance to do it as much as I’d like, but surfing the blogosphere is one of my favorite things to do. Not only because it informs me, but because it inspires me - it shows me not only what other people are doing and thinking, but inspires me to do and think in new ways myself. It makes this blog better, and it makes my work better.
This morning, I got a chance to check in on one website that I’ve been meaning to look at: www.condredge.com. It’s a blog from a cool guy I’ve met over twitter, and over the web. It’s about entrepreneurship, but like any good blog (about anything), it’s more about Condredge’s personal journey through entrepreneurship than anything else.
His most recent post (which I stole the title of for this one), is about something I write about here a lot: getting out there and doing it. He’s saying that entrepreneurship isn’t about waiting around for opportunities, and it isn’t about not doing something because of the possibility for failure. It’s about going out, and making things happen. Going out and doing what feels right to do, even if you don’t know why (or where you’re going). It’s business as faith, and I think there’s a lot to it… both outside and inside the startup world.
But I think there’s a lot to it in the startup writing world too. For me (and for most), it’s not about creating the perfect sentence, or waiting around for it to come. It’s about getting out there and writing. Then re-writing, then re-writing again. It’s about working to get a certain point without knowing beforehand exactly where that point is, or how you’ll get there. That’s how I produce good stuff (and how you can too). It’s an art, but the kind of art you get by welding huge chunks of steel together. Not pretty, but in the end, effective.
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