If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.
Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.
Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.
Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.
People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.
I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.