I wasn't jealous when I first read about Paul Ford's work on the redesign of the Harpers site. Instead, I thought it was amazingly cool. Unfortunately, my brain didn't stay there long.
Soon, I began to feel the familiar pangs of jealousy. I'm not jealous of Paul's work but of the reality of him actually doing something. I doubt that makes sense to most people but to me, I get jealous when people are actually accomplishing things when I am not. Sure, I have some grandiose plans and interesting ideas but I never seem to actually do anything about them. I might write a bit of test code here and jots down some thoughts there but I don't force myself to sit down and crank things out.
If I did begin to finish things, would I still be jealous? I'm sure that I would but hopefully it would be because I'm jealous that I didn't think of the idea as opposed to jealous of someone getting something done.
Posted by Josh at December 3, 2003 01:22 AM | TrackBackThat style of jealousy is a powerful good thing, a great motivational tool. Surround it, harness it, use it. It's free extra energy.
Posted by: mg on December 3, 2003 09:57 AM