The Art of Finishing Things

Today a simple message around “The Art of Finishing Things”, about getting it out to the public when it is good, not perfect.

I feel inspired to tell this story today in the form of connecting the dots, thanks to my past #WhatComesNextLive guest Rob Poynton for recommending the weekly(“ish”) newsletter of Nick Parker, “That Explains Things”, which is full of nuggets, a numbered list that connects the dots in some form or other from one nugget to the next.

Enjoy.

In a recent newsletter from Nick, he recommended the film “My Octopus Teacher”, so that is added to my winter lockdown list on Netflix. He also guided me to the superb video talk below from Jack Conté, which Nick described as being about “the difference between starting and finishing things”.

This line and Jack’s video sparked so many thoughts in me, so, before the video, let me connect the dots, a little like the style of numbered bullet points Nick Parker uses in his newsletter.

1. In 2021 Seth Godin wrote a blog called “this might work” where he launched his latest (and most personal) book “The Icarus Deception” via Kickstarter. I went “all in” on the Kickstarter, then…