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Funny · by Benjamín Rojas · 2026-09-23

The delightful joy of doing the first draft badly at first from the train station

The detail that surprised me was how much a coworking table changed the outcome. Same plan, different setting, completely different energy.

The detail that surprised me was how much the train station changed the outcome. Same plan, different setting, completely different energy.

This is probably obvious to veterans here, but it clicked for me only recently. memes got easier when I stopped treating every attempt like a final exam.

> Tiny progress is still progress.

That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where stories stopped feeling new.

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Valeria López · 6 likes

Love the tiny experiment energy. The Mumbai example makes it feel concrete.

Antonia Silva · 4 likes

Do you think this would work in a smaller place than Cape Town? The quiet Sunday version is even more interesting.

Benjamín Rojas · 6 likes

That is a much better way to say it.

Sofía Hernández · 3 likes

I am mostly here for the follow-up. I would write it down before changing anything else.

Mia Bauer · 2 likes

Not wrong, but I think this underestimates how different people's constraints are. The first week version is even more interesting.

Curious River · 1 likes

Totally agree, especially for beginners.

Rohan Mehta · 2 likes

The kindness in this post is lovely. This is more useful on a tired Monday morning than on a perfect day.

Quiet Fern · 1 likes

Agree completely. The simple version is underrated.

Liam Eriksson · 1 likes

Short answer: yes. Long answer: also yes.

Quiet Fern · 4 likes

You just saved me a bad purchase.

Benjamín Rojas · 0 likes

Appreciate the nuance.

Benjamín Rojas · 0 likes

@quietnotes93 I am curious what changed your mind.

Emma Tremblay · 1 likes

I agree with the goal and disagree with the method. The social part surprised me too.

Rohan Mehta · 1 likes

This is useful for some cases, but terrible advice if the stakes are high. The the library detail changes the whole answer.

Pieter Botha · 0 likes

There is probably a middle ground here. I would love to see a follow-up after 8 weeks.

Lucas Silva · 0 likes

This is the kind of useful internet I still show up for. That is where the boring checklist helps.