Just Fucking Ship and Introspect share the idea of Do-ism

I'm noticing an idea shared by Just Fucking Ship and Introspect: That doing things and making things, shipping and having an impact on other people, is great for (a certain kind of) personal growth.

In Just Fucking Ship, Amy Hoy writes about how shipping things is a great way to get over an aversion to underconfidence or uncertainty:

Light anxiety & avoidance

You want to host a dinner party, but don’t know where to start, so you don’t. Ever.

You’re worried that your dinner party won’t be perfect, that somebody might not absolutely love what you make. So you don’t host a dinner party. Ever.

You feel bad that you haven’t hosted a dinner party, when you should have. So you… avoid thinking about it.

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Working effectively is the best therapy

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You’ll develop confidence, and you’ll develop faith in yourself, too. You’ll want to do more, next time. Better.

Visakan Veerasamy in Introspect is even more enthusiastic about doing things. One of the book's ideas is do 100 things: Make a lot of the thing so that you get good at making the thing. Draw 100 things. Write 100 essays. Talk to 100 people. Ship a lot, intentionally. He also writes, in the outline preceding part 2 of the book, about how collaboration is humanizing:

A project is anything requiring collaboration, even if it's *only* between you-today and you-tomorrow. Collaboration is deeply humanizing! It'll make you feel more powerful, confident, expand your sense of self, and the world feels like it opens up to you.

So far, so much like Just Fucking Ship. But Visa goes even a bit further. Later, he writes that the inability to collaborate is "therefore dehumanizing." And in part 5 he goes further, encouraging readers to take on ever bigger projects (emphais mine):

I’ve said earlier that projects are anything that requires collaboration, and that collaboration is humanizing. To collaborate with yourself over time requires, sooner or later, collaborating with every part of yourself. The bigger the project, the truer this becomes. So what I recommend – and this might be the thing that differentiates my take from more placid advice – is that you seek to accomplish progressively larger and more difficult projects. It could be deadlifting 3x your bodyweight. It could be running a marathon. It could be making a movie. It could be writing and recording an album. Whatever it is, you want to challenge yourself, and experience triumph.

Just Fucking Ship doesn't discuss this idea directly, but it would surely be in line with the book's vibe. JFS on the other hand is stronger about the importance of shipping — of inviting people to the dinner, getting your essays or web apps or movies in front of people who will read, use, or watch them. Introspect is maybe not as forceful about shipping in that sense.

I'm calling this general attitude toward doing things do-ism: The idea that doing things (shipping) is great and you should consider doing more. The argument here is from a desire for personal growth. That's a good reason. There are other good reasons to do things, too.