Building submarines.

On doing hard things.

Life is short, as everyone knows. You can scuttle around with it and play it safe. But that’s a gimmick.

I’d been toying around with software for the past few years. I’ve picked up programming languages, made websites, done cool things. But when you get involved with software it can be enveloping. Every few months I felt the need to pick up some new skill. It’s Web Assembly, then its Tensor flow. A nightmarish fantasia of resume building.

So I decided to do something different. I must admit that I've been spurred on by Marc Andreessen’s IT’S TIME TO BUILD. It’d been a while since I made anything. Something physical.

I tried finding the funnest hard thing that I could do. So I made a wacky list of wacky things. The rule was this - If someone wouldn’t say something like “lol what the fuck” then it wasn’t worth doing. On that list was “create moving cities” and “become and interior designer for cars”. My funnest hard thing, was building a submarine.

This isn’t a pitch for the submarine, although I welcome interest(about to finish da prototype). But more of an ask. I’ve rarely been constantly, more exited, about anything. Because it’s hard and that’s what makes it worth doing. The ask, is that you build a submarine too. Pick the hardest thing that you could possibly do. And do it. Thinking of risk is dumb. Especially now.