Something To Celebrate: Moving Before the Crowd
Background photo by Kelly Sikkema (@InkyPixels)
This week, Etsy rolled out a new feature, and before most sellers had even noticed the announcement, I had already built out a whole product line around it. Not because I had some elaborate strategy mapped out — I just saw it, recognized the opening, and moved.
There's something worth sitting with in that. I think a lot of us have been trained to wait — for more information, for someone else to test it first, for the timing to feel more certain. But moving early, even imperfectly, is its own kind of skill. I didn't know exactly how it would land. I just knew that the window was open and I was ready to walk through it. That readiness doesn't come from nowhere. It's built up quietly, over time, from all the smaller moments of paying attention and showing up. This week I got to see that it was actually there.
Whenever something like this happens, my instinct is always the same — find a little something to mark it.
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