Do it anyway

I can still make useful contributions to the world, and I’m not giving up.

If it’s worth doing, do it anyway

I was used to being able to do almost anything (at least, anything mental) as smartly as possible, more quickly, and more creatively than most people.

I am not as good as I used to be.

This is what I have learned: If something is worth doing, it is still worth doing, even if you can’t do it the way you used to.

Even if you do it more slowly.

Even if you have setbacks.

Even if you have to find technological workarounds and ways to leverage new tools (AI, for example).

Even if somebody else could theoretically do it better. (Often, when you really look at it, they actually can’t.)

Even if you can’t get paid as much as you’d like.

Why do it anyway

There are two reasons to do it anyway.

The first is that if you don’t, it probably won’t get done — or at least, won’t get done right, the way you know it should. And if it’s worth doing, it should get done.

The second is that contributing, learning, and growing is better than sitting back and slowly dying.

I’m still pretty kickass at doing things worth doing. And I don’t intend to give that up.

I’m going to do it anyway. And the world — and you, perhaps — will be better off because I did.