Brilliant idea — feed old book pages through printer to create silhouette art.

Must. Do.

In my love of all things infographic, I stumbled across The Done Manifesto while perusing feedly the other day (okay, a few weeks ago). I can absolutely appreciate that there’s something to be said about just getting shit done instead of sitting on it until everything is just so, or pouring over a project for so long it perpetually remains an unfinished work in progress, as the perfectionist in me has admittedly been known to do at times. However, I have to wonder if urging the masses to just push out work without emphasis on greatness, are we merely encouraging the world at large to be satisfied with mediocrity, insinuating that ‘half-assed’ in the new ‘done right’?

The full set of rule below, to make that call yourself (or pick up a few new tips):

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

via Lifehacker, originally posted by Bre Pettis in ‘The Cult of Done Manifesto‘