I wholeheartedly agree. In an age of talking heads. you will not hear from the people actually doing the thing. because they too busy doing the thing versus talking about it. now excuse me ima go back to doing the thing.

Am I crazy or have I read this or a very similar post before?

Failure, bad execution, and tiny progress all count. That's the part people conveniently forget while optimizing their toolchains and workflows

Ironically people who fall in not doing the thing category of this article are valued more than those who do the thing.

Writing a litany about doing the thing is not doing the thing. Posting on HN about doing the thing is not doing the thing. Commenting about doing the thing is not doing the thing.

Guilty as charged, going back to work.

> Writing a blog about doing the thing is not doing the thing.

I like that this was included.

1,000,000% agree.

Corollary: whoever has done something, even "wrong", is 1,000x more valuable as somebody else who is "planning to do it someday".

Will this continue to be true? I do agree with the principle. But I've sometimes had the feeling that poor design upfront can have compounding consequences, especially when AI is filling in ambiguities.

A bit of a meta lesson for me here: Writing a short, pointed, opinionated blog post is blogging. If I care about blogging my thoughts, I need to just do it, not worry about rigor or depth ahead of time

I get the sentiment, but thinking and planning are important steps to doing things. Obviously you can’t stop there, and you shouldn’t spend too much time on that part, but it is still important.