Outpacing the Spiral

Sometimes, especially if you spend a lot of time online, it can feel like everyone is moving faster than you. Folks post dozens of times a day about their main project, their side project and how they’ve automated their life and have more time than ever. Reading those stories it’s easy to feel like you’re not doing enough.You can feel this way even when you are actively doing things. You have a side project but it feels like a slow burn next to everything else. You might be ticking along in your day job but worry about being left behind. You're not stopped but you don't feel like you're moving fast enough.I’ve certainly felt this way. For a long time, especially when I was running a startup, I felt I was perpetually behind everyone else. These days there’s even more to keep up with and sometimes the feeling rears its head.What I’ve found is that when you dig into it, most of these folks are doing a lot of things without really moving forward. The way I think about it is as if they’re…