I write this blog, in part, as a response to the impermanence of Twitter and Facebook. If I’m going to have the audacity to post publicly on the internet then I want it, good, bad or indifferent, to be permanent. I want to build something.

You’re fucking swimming in everyone else’s moments, likes, and tweets and during these moments of consumption you are coming to believe that their brief interestingness to others makes it somehow relevant to you and worth your time.

We’re just starting 2014 and Rands nails it again:

When you choose to create, you’re bucking the trend because you’re choosing to take the time to build.

And that’s a great way to start the year.

Go read The Builder’s High.