{"id":150,"date":"2025-07-27T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/?p=150"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:28:33","slug":"thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do you keep hitting that publish button, over and over again, knowing there\u2019s no one on the other side?<br><br>For me, it comes down to two things:<br>&#8211; For writing, that I have something I want to say. I always wished people ahead of me told me things that would benefit me down the line. That almost never happened, I had to figure out most things myself, the hard way. I share so I do what was not done onto me.<br><br>&#8211; For projects, that I have something I want to do. It could be a commodity but I probably have a unique angle to it. Or that noone wants the damn thing, but I feel it is interesting\/important and it should be done regardless. Worst case, we can call it \u201cart\u201d.<br><br>And that I have fun during the process, and even learn a thing or two. I have worked on many side projects over the years and said lots of things on social media that went nowhere, but I still learned a lot and those learnings always helped me reach higher goals in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeetmehta.com\/posts\/thrive-in-obscurity\">https:\/\/www.jeetmehta.com\/posts\/thrive-in-obscurity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you keep hitting that publish button, over and over again, knowing there\u2019s no one on the other side? For me, it comes down to two things:&#8211; For writing, that I have something I want to say. I always wished people ahead of me told me things that would benefit me down the line. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrahdiril.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}