bias for action

When you want to move the needle, when you want to make real progress, you need action. No one will do it for you. It’s on you to get the job done.

The world will teach you to be thorough, to wait for the “right” move before making any. To rely on analysis and endless planning, even though most actions are reversible.

There’s a time and place for research, strategy, and planning. But without action, you won’t learn what’s right or wrong, what works and what doesn’t. What you like, and what you don’t.

You can’t plan your way to happiness or success. It’s all in the work.

And so, the maker builds a bias for action.

They know, you know, that to get where you wanna go, you have to move—even if you’re not the most capable or experienced. Even if someone else could do it better or faster.

Despite all that, the maker takes action. In the name of progress.

Because the maker understands that most actions are indeed reversible. And if they’re wrong, they can make it right.

The maker knows that doing the work is the only way, and cultivating a bias for action is how real work gets done.