You may have the knowledge, but do you have the wisdom?
It's easy to get stuck in a never ending loop of learning to prepare yourself for creating a business. However, sometimes you just need to get in there and do the things to make progress that helps you become wiser in the art of indie hacking.
Do you find yourself getting stuck in a learning loop?
Are you ensuring you actively practice building something to achieve that progress (and wisdom)?
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Yes, I've definitely found myself in a learning loop in the past. It's very easy to do, especially when there is so much information delivered in a never-ending variety of different mediums.
To me, wisdom is knowledge filtered through experience, because I tend to view knowledge without application as useless. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is great for ivory tower dwellers, but in the trenches, wisdom is what will separate the auteur from the amateur.
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Thank you. 🙃
I get stuck in this loop quite often. The way I try to get out of it and succeed most of the time, is by setting small goals of deployments. This means achieving stuff that is certainly useful for the users if it's not functional it shouldn't be deployed.
I also find my self reading recently "Getting Real" by Basecamp, it combines a lot of preexisting pieces of wisdom so it's a great guide to get unstuck from a rut too.
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In the first chapters, the core concept are about simplifying stuff, creating stuff for yourself, funding yourself and having scope flexibility. As far as I've read this is a very recommended book for anyone trying to build something on the web.
The one thing that stuck to me most is building something that solves my problem first, that "scratches my itch", with that as a guide, I can find a market.