Friday Medley 2.5.21

Brick Building, Creator Culture, and CrossFit Retirement

🧱 The World of Entrepreneurship

To begin this week’s medley, I wanted to include a video that provides one of the best analogies for entrepreneurship I’ve heard in a long time.

Thomas Brush, an indie game developer and YouTuber, thinks of entrepreneurship as the gifting of bricks. Every project you complete, whether it becomes a commercial success or not, awards its creator with a brick.

Most people enter business-building for the trophies. They want the (promised) inevitable payday; the Instagrammable meetups; to appear on the covers of unread magazines. When in reality, it’s about building things that provide a foundation for the next phase of building.

The mindset of a true entrepreneur isn’t “I’ll be done working after this project becomes a huge success.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of “I love this project and if it becomes a huge success, it will enable me to work on even bigger projects in the future.”

This sentiment echoes one of my favorite ideas from the great Bruce Lee — the means are the ends.

For a full explanation from Brush on the brick analogy, here is the video.