Most of these self-help books are okay-ish. Yet many are superfluous encouragements.

We all know what is essential. Self-help feels like procrastination. We often read these books to avoid doing the real things.

However, explaining to people how to do difficult things is easier than doing the difficult stuff themselves.

Teaching people how to make their art is easier than the work of making art itself.

And to finish it.

Derek Sivers in How To Live:

Calling yourself creative doesn’t make it true. All that matters is what you’ve launched. Make finishing your top priority.

Seth Godin: Ship It!

I am in the process of printing this series of black-and-white photos, and it is coming along quite well now. The prints on Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique II (try to think up a name like that for a paper type) look very nice.

Now, I want to share the results of this work, so I need to make a good picture of the print. That is not as easy as it seems. Despite the luster of the paper, the print reflects light, creating bleak spots on the photo. Not so nice.

Or I am too finicky.