{"id":145583,"date":"2025-03-20T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/adventure\/itll-never-be-enough-until-you-decide-its-enough-semi-rad-com\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:31:28","slug":"itll-never-be-enough-until-you-decide-its-enough-semi-rad-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=145583","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll Never Be Enough Until You Decide It\u2019s Enough \u2013 Semi-Rad.com"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In and around the Devils Tower Lodge back in 2014, there was not much cell reception,<\/strong> and the satellite internet was kind of unpredictable. My friend Forest and I were there to shoot a short film, and Max Lowe was there working on a different video project. One afternoon, I walked into the living room at the lodge to check my messages and social media on my phone, and jokingly said something like, \u201cOoh I better check Instagram, how many likes did I get?\u201d<\/p>\n

Max deadpanned: \u201cNever enough, Brendan. Never enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re familiar with the story of Tom Anderson from MySpace. If not, here\u2019s a timeline of his past 22 years:<\/p>\n

\"Timeline,<\/p>\n

You might say, \u201cWell, of course! If I had $580 million, I\u2019d retire too!\u201d Which is probably accurate. But it\u2019s not the story we hear about most people with that much money and influence.<\/p>\n

Tom started a social media company when it was fun, sold it when it got big, got out when it was fading, and didn\u2019t try to start another social media company to make even more money. From my perspective, it seems like he skipped out on the part after social media descended into \u2026 well, whatever it is now.<\/p>\n

He said: Nah, I\u2019m good. This is enough.<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

I see all kinds of content in my inbox and feeds about growth: grow your newsletter, grow your social media following, convert followers into customers, how such-and-such writer built a $25,000\/month newsletter, et cetera. I try to pay a little bit of attention to it, since I want to keep making a living doing what I do, but I have to keep myself from getting too sucked into it and believing that I, too, must focus on maximizing my following\/potential\/income or I\u2019ll be left behind, or be a failure, or \u2026 actually, I don\u2019t know, I guess it\u2019s assumed that growth is good, no matter what?<\/p>\n

I mean, money is great, and sure, I\u2019d like some more of it (wouldn\u2019t we all?). And my mom probably thinks my newsletter is worth $25,000 a month, but to paraphrase our late, great rap legend Christopher Wallace<\/strong><\/a>,<\/p>\n

\"Line<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m lucky to earn just enough money that it\u2019s not my No. 1 worry every day (occasionally when I wake up 3 a.m., yes, but not every day). And I feel fortunate to have enough people who want to read\/enjoy my work that I can call it a \u201cjob.\u201d But I also feel fortunate to remain at a level at which I can answer almost all the correspondence I get from people wanting to connect. So when I get those emails and see those articles about growth, growth, growth, I sometimes have to pump the brakes and say, \u201cHold on, we\u2019re doing OK, this is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a skill I\u2019m trying to develop: Recognizing that more does not necessarily equal happiness or meaning or fulfillment, and sometimes it actually lowers the quality of everything.<\/p>\n

Have you ever been out to dinner with two or three friends, realized you\u2019re having a wonderful time, and thought to yourself, \u201cThis is great, but it\u2019d be even better if there were 12 of us\u201d? Me neither. It just means you\u2019re barely going to get to talk to five or six people at the far end of the table.<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

To be an adult human nowadays\u2014or actually, maybe to be human old enough to have homework\u2014is to feel like there\u2019s always something else you could be doing, whether that thing is \u201cproductive\u201d or not. Even if we don\u2019t have emails to answer or work\/homework tasks to be completed, there\u2019s always news to catch up on, new social media posts we haven\u2019t seen yet, and a thousand other things we might be procrastinating for whatever reason. It\u2019s enough to make you feel a little insane\u2014which, honestly, IT FUCKING IS. It\u2019s insane.<\/p>\n

We all find ourselves somewhere on a productivity spectrum, from the most high-functioning CEO\/LinkedIn influencer prototypes who crush every single moment of their waking lives, to the biggest slacker we\u2019ve ever met, who seems to never do anything and is content to seemingly watch life pass them by (but maybe live longer in the process?):<\/p>\n

\"21st<\/p>\n

Not to rain on anyone\u2019s optimization parade, but what\u2019s the end product of MAXIMIZING MY PRODUCTIVITY? If it\u2019s getting shit done so I can eat dinner with my family and not be thinking about emails, great. If it\u2019s making more money, OK, great, but is that what we really want? I mean, sure, nice stuff is nice. I can respect a luxurious new car as much as the next person, but no matter how much money you spend on a car, it can\u2019t prevent me from having to sit in traffic in it. I\u2019d love to be a guy who drives a \u201cnice car,\u201d but maybe I\u2019m more of a \u201cnice blender\u201d kind of guy.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

I have a long track record of not being 100 percent present in the moment. I always find myself thinking about stuff on my to-do list, or emails I haven\u2019t answered, or projects I need to finish. Then I got lucky, and we had a baby. Now, I would never try to sell anyone on being a parent (I was a tough sell on it myself), but I would say that keeping a child alive for 2\u00bd years has done wonders for my ability to be present. For sure, there have been many hours of tedium being invited to \u201cplay\u201d by a toddler who doesn\u2019t necessarily want me to participate, but to be present next to him as he builds structures out of Duplo blocks or Magna Tiles.<\/p>\n

We are only planning to have one kid, so this is our only time to have these experiences, and I\u2019m aware that it\u2019s all going to fly by (I know this because people have told me it will\u2014and it already is). So eventually he\u2019s not going to drag me by the finger into the living room to play, and eventually he won\u2019t need me to read books to him, and one day it\u2019ll be way more difficult to get him to laugh or smile, so I try to truly be there when it\u2019s happening, instead of letting my brain go somewhere else, to my to-do list, or deadline, or whatever\u2019s happening in the news, or the five million things I could be doing if I pulled my phone out of my pocket.<\/p>\n

I try to tell myself that being here on the floor with my little guy is enough. Because what could be happening on my phone that could possibly be more important than watching this little amateur human being mispronouncing \u201cconstruction\u201d as we\u2019re sitting on the floor for a few minutes before he heads off to day care? For now, this is enough.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed this piece, please consider\u00a0supporting my work<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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