It’s hard to show up for the first time.
But that isn’t the hard part.
The hard part is showing up again. In the wind and the rain and the boredom and the not enough money and the not cool enough.
If you’re doing good work there will be thankless days and nights…where a pat on the back would sure be nice, but you’ve moved on past the need for it because you’ve decided that the byproducts of the work are more important than feeling a certain way while doing the work.
This is what we need more of. Determined, caring, creative people building things that take a while.