Comments on: A long night http://rowansimpson.com/2007/05/15/a-long-night/ Made in New Zealand from local and imported ingredients Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Holy Cow! « Rowan Simpson http://rowansimpson.com/2007/05/15/a-long-night/#comment-8487 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:18:09 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/05/15/a-long-night/#comment-8487 [...] It’s yet another example of an overnight success, which actually took 10 years. [...]

]]> By: 7 Years Hard Work = Overnight Success at Sam Stewart http://rowansimpson.com/2007/05/15/a-long-night/#comment-8486 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:46:00 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/05/15/a-long-night/#comment-8486 [...] Rowan has highlighted an overnight success typically requires a long night. Jeremy Liew at Light Speed Venture Partners [...]

]]> By: Tim Norton http://rowansimpson.com/2007/05/15/a-long-night/#comment-636 Fri, 18 May 2007 00:37:59 +0000 http://rowansimpson.com/2007/05/15/a-long-night/#comment-636 Indeed the long night, I gather its because people just don’t want to comprehend that all good things pretty much take quite a bit of time and hard work, and instead search for magic moments where everything suddenly changed.

Its true I think, there are sometimes leaps along the road, magic moments, tipping points where things change significantly, but these are products of the larger force of constant incremental progress and hard yards.

Doing the hard yards in the dark doesn’t sappear to have been sold very well to most people, maybe its the years of movies glamorising the isolated moments and focusing on the quick emotional wins from the visibly exciting times.

Waking up to a day that you’ve worked all night to create doesn’t sound so bad to me.

cheers,
tim

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