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It feels strange to say this, but I am doing something I'm really bad at.
I'm bad at it, and I can't stop doing it. And I need to keep doing it until I'm better at it.
I'm shipping a weekly newsletter called The Argonautic. It's pretty bad. (You should still sign up for it though!) And because I'm obsessed with figuring out how to create value with curation, I have to keep trying to make The Argonautic better until it is better. I can't stop doing it.
For a while I was a pretty zealous advocate for daily publication. (I still am an advocate of this practice, but now for special cases -- not for the general case.) A big part of that practice is being OK with being bad at the daily writing practice. That's why it feels strange to admit feeling bad about doing something I'm bad at.
Maybe it never gets easier to persist through being bad at something in service of becoming better at that thing. As I age though, I do I gain sympathy for those who decide this isn't worth the effort.
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