On Being 'done'.... The Cult of Done and being 'Dion'

I found this post on boingboing - I have been so busy in the last few weeks that I have not been able to check many blogs (only my friends Wessel, Pete, and Gus... see details on the right hand side of this page.  PS, Pete, I found your post about sex quite interesting and challenging!)...

But, this quote from Cory was very interesting - it comes from here Cult of Done Manifesto: a name for my disease

Bre Pettis and Kio Stark's "Cult of Done" manifesto is basically how I live my life -- fail fast and often, get stuff done, get more stuff done, fail some more, learn, blow something up, fail, learn, do more stuff, do more stuff, do more stuff.

Seriously: reading these 13 bullet points are like discovering the name for my disease. Or my religion.

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

The Cult of Done Manifesto (via Boogah)

posted in: Happy Mutants

Yup, that's me alright!  Task oriented, walk where angels fear to tread, and always thinking a few steps ahead of where I am.  There can be a great deal of reward in being this way... Of course there are also many challenges to being compulsive and task oriented.  But, that's Dion ;-)

What's your style!?

Comments

[Wessel Bentley]

It's like looking in a mirror! I suffer from the same disease.