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When I was learning to play the game Go, someone told me that there's some old advice about "losing your first 100 games as quickly as possible". That's stuck w
by devin 6y ago
When I was learning to play the game Go, someone told me that there's some old advice about "losing your first 100 games as quickly as possible". That's stuck with me.
Another one is (and I don't even know if it's 100% true, but I don't much care) that a common housefly will change its path if it runs into a window more than twice. I strive to be better than a common house fly.
- ISL 6y agoThere is a photography adage that your first ten-thousand photographs are your worst. I'm not sure I agree -- sometimes you get lucky or circumstance is favorable -- but I am certain that my second ten-thousand photographs were better, on average, than my first.
- Aeolun 6y agoMy iPhone photo’s are vastly better than anything I ever took with my DSLR, but I’m positive it’s mostly for that reason. That said, the incredible digital processing helps a lot.
- mirimir 6y agoI got basically the same advice from my adviser about collecting data for my thesis. "If too many experiments are failing," he said, "just do more of them, and faster."
- evanmoran 6y agoSometimes I wonder if failing twice is an optimal evolutionary state. Once is not enough to know if it’s worth changing for.
- _0ffh 6y agoYeah, as a kid this is what always bugged me about Wile E. Coyote.
- pusiko 6y agoIf at first you don't succeed, try two more times so that your failure is "statistically significant"
- jimmySixDOF 6y agoor: If at first you don't succeed, Sky Diving is not for you.