The Hacker Ethic

Hacking at self, ethics, and life.

Substrate

You already know how to do it. You just don’t know that you know it yet. Beneath the uncertainty, inelegance, and insecurity is success. It’s hidden and you you refuse to see it, but it’s there.

So where is it?

It’s in the thing you already know how to do well. It’s in the things that you’re already passionate about. The patterns are there, you need to apply them to the next thing.

It isn’t easy: you have to get over your fear of not knowing something and just do it. Learn. Absorb. And do, not stopping until it’s another thing you know well.