As much as I would like to take credit for the title of this post, I can't. It's a phrase from the front page of The Marginalian. The quote itself is: “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it’s hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition o...
