/** In the spirit of “iterating in public”, I figure I’ll opt for quantity over quality and just see where things go. Skimmed through a recent podcast Mr.Beast did with Lex Fridman (link to clip here, entire podcast here; most subscribed channel on Youtube with insane viewership) and a pretty logical but helpful tip he had for “new creators” is just to fail and go for quantity over quality initially.
More specifically, make 100 videos because no one will watch them and just try to improve on some metric every video. And then on the 101th video you can be more thoughtful about improving details. In essence, he is saying to just dive in and get started.
Now this doesn’t apply to everything (the failure part, not the practice part, but these may be the same thing?) but for many creative ventures it is probably the only singular way to improve. A healthy mix of thoughtfulness and practice/failure I’d go with personally.
edit 1.27.22: Forgot to mention, but I think that if anyone does something extraordinary, whatever it is, and however unrelated it is to you and what you do, it can still be relevant. Always something to learn from every single human being (where I’d say even emphasis/reiterating known and unoriginal ideas/concepts counts).
Interesting quote I read a while back:
Your goal in life is to operate as efficiently as possible and improve upon that qualitative metric every single year.
Found myself to be the type who enjoys reading multiple books at a time; paging through
tl;dr trial and error continues to be underrated?
Cheers,
Vish
Published on January 22, 2023.