Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.