http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html
My comments are in black.
Dear Members of the Cult of Done,
I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in collaboration with Kio Stark in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.(Unless you act you wont complete and unless you take it to the logical conclusion you wont know whether or not ur idea succeeds)
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. (Actually even the final result is a draft for the next stage - where in you either roll back to the previous state or institutionalize the changes)
- There is no editing stage.
- 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. (Remember my failed experiment with launching a pontoon from a pontoon)
- Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
- Once you're done you can throw it away.
- Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
- People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right. (I have seen people getting promoted to the rank of a Major General because they made no mistakes at all during their tenures - actually they never took any decisions - I assume they are the exceptions, but it is generally the doers who rise up)
- Failure counts as done. So do mistakes. (I think Newton said after 1000 failed experiments that this is one more way in which it should not be done, if I need to succeed)
- Destruction is a variant of done.
- If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
- Done is the engine of more. (Once you do, get on the bandwagon of doing more and more)
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