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Wrote a thread in response to asking how to do work instead of hanging around on Twitter all day, without coercion. I still grapple with variants of this Q, of course, but the stance I share here has helped me a lot over the last couple years.
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Replying to @metaLulie
Not a solopreneur but similar situation. Trying to work non-coercively, I’ve found it useful to understand my monkey-brain proclivities. Monkey has inertia, finds it hard to get started, easy to continue. Monkey wants easy gratification in the moment, meaningfulness in hindsight.
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Oh, and apparently Twitter's UI makes it impossible to read as a thread (maybe because it's in reply to someone else?). If interested you can start at the end and read "up".
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Replying to @andy_matuschak and @metaLulie
What’s the motivation to do work at all? Wonder at discovery; feeling of power at having shaped something out of nothing; a sense of having traced the seams of the universe; memory of satisfaction for past achievements; excitement for what’s possible.