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Bre Pettis
Personal blog · brepettis.com/bloghardwareculture
Bre Pettis's personal blog at brepettis.com covers hardware and culture. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Cult of Done Manifesto”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bre Pettis's "The Cult of Done Manifesto" as anti-procrastination and anti-perfectionism advice for finishing projects. Its list of principles is often quoted in threads on productivity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bre Pettis — artist, maker, and CEO of Bantam Tools. Infrastructure that carries aliveness.
Most-linked posts?
- The Cult of Done Manifesto10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2009-03-12
What Hacker News says?
From "The Cult of Done Manifesto": 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. 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. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a w…
Comment linking /blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html
on “I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.”Submitted The Cult of Done -- are you in it? as a story · 75 points
HN discussionIm amazed that the answer pointing to "the cult of done manifesto" was downvoted!! ( http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-mani... )
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on “How to cope with “idea overflow”?”Submitted The Cult of Done Manifesto as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSome no nonsense anti- procrastination/perfectionism tips: Structured Procrastination http://www.structuredprocrastination.com The Cult of Done Manifesto http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-mani... Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work http://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/maxfuncon-merl... Beating The Little Hater http://www.podtech.net/home/4760/beating-the-little-hater Ze Frank on Executi…
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on “Have you ever been successful in changing your personality?”Submitted The Cult of Done Manifesto as a story · 10 points
HN discussionObligatory ref: http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-mani... (Bre Pettis is a cofounder of the NYC Resistor hackerspace, and of MakerBot Industries)
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on “Better To Do Than To Think”Submitted The Done Manifesto: How to stop stalling and start achieving as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYep, I think this was just on HN recently: http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-mani... I hadn't realized how accurately that describes my productive/unproductive periods.
Comment linking /blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html
on “Ask HN: How do you get in your "productive" mode?”Submitted Bre Pettis | The Cult of Done Manifesto as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cult of Done Manifesto as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The Cult of Done Manifesto as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cult of Done Manifesto (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Survival Guide to a Hospital NICU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sudo make me a sandwich robot as a story · 1 points
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