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The Days Are Long but the Years Are Short

Steve Coast · 9 Aug 2024

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Fear and vanity, not a lack of ideas, are what keep most people from building new things.

There seems to be a million reasons and two opposing forces keeping us in inaction: fear and vanity.

Also said by David Heinemeier Hansson

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  1. There seems to be a million reasons and two opposing forces keeping us in inaction: fear and vanity.
  2. New things tend to not work, or you have to change them drastically.

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