Do I consider myself an artist? No. By the time I finish Linchpin I may change my mind, but I generally identify with being a person of action. But am I just lying to myself?

As I found myself reading about yet another writing workflow and digital ecosystem, I felt the comfortable dopamine hit of pretending to do something by reading about others actually doing something.

Then I read a bit more of Seth’s book and appreciated the simplicity of his message. The ones putting in the emotional labor have to actually do something to contribute. They have to ship, like the Steve Jobs quote above.

So I bought the domain. I set up the GitHub pages repo and forked a simple Jekyll blog. I copied someone’s workflow to make it easy to post from anywhere. I started something.

An old gym I used to follow had a similar message. It was:

Talk - Action = Zero

So this is me taking action. Let’s see if I can keep it up.