The thing with posting things online is that you never know what will happen to it.

Sometimes I think of something and think, “Wow, this is amazing! I have to share it.” So I frantically journal the idea, explore every inch and carefully put it up here. But it ends up getting no response.

Yet other times, I share something generic and obvious, type it up within five minutes, and expect that people will find it boring. Yet, I soon see that it’s hugely popular.

This likely happens to all creators. When you see something amazing you think, “Jeez, I could never come up with something like that.” But it was probably obvious to the author and you just happened to see it for the first time that way. Everyone has ideas which are quite spectacular to other people.

We’re terrible judges of our work. We should just put it out there and let the world decide.

Credits to Derek Sivers for this idea.