Nothing Great Starts Great

Dear Son,

I used to think I had to be good at something before I started.

Now I know — you get good by starting.

Everything I ever did started badly.
My writing, my sobriety, my income experiments, my first email list, even learning to use a computer back in the '90s…
None of it was graceful. None of it looked promising.

But I showed up. Again. And again.
And …