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the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and s

the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and sharing these ideas. thats the key to success. the MKBHD pickup is just the recognition of the skill honed through this process.

vmception 6y ago
MKBHD picking it up had nothing to do with his journey or level of skill. MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular, a different designer dabbling with no prior mobile icon interest could have come up with something appealing to others as well. Being there and getting an influencer is what made this story, and can be repeated by anyone. OP is conflating the rest of it with his own trials and tribulations.
- sumedh 6y ago
  > MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular I think MKBHD also has to worry about his reputation, if he promoted something less refined his viewers might get pissed off.
  - vmception 6y ago
    It can happen and happens to influencers all the time. I'm glad it worked out for everyone involved. OP's prior work is not why it worked out.
necovek 6y ago
That seems to ignore the fact that there are hundreds of people of equally "honed skills" not having earned $100k over 6 days. The key to a success of this type is luck. Sure, you can optimize for being on the path of success, but majority will still be missed.
- jdmichal 6y ago
  I mean, it's obviously both skill and luck. Like pretty much anything else that's "instantly" successful.
- edoceo 6y ago
  "Luck" is what happens when the prepared are given opportunity.
  - somesortofthing 6y ago
    Being "prepared" for a given opportunity is often trivial. Whether the opportunity you're prepared for ever arises is luck.
    - acomms 6y ago
      If you're good and persistent eventually you get lucky. Most people just give up because being persistent is emotionally draining.
      - entropicdrifter 6y ago
        If you're good and persistent and happen to be prepared enough for whichever type of opportunity happens to present itself for you
      - Talanes 6y ago
        Do you consider death to be giving up or getting lucky? Or had you just not considered that some people try very hard until the day they die without getting lucky?
    - virgilp 6y ago
      No, you underestimate that. Being prepared is increasing your chances. There's one thing to be lucky as "1 in a billion" chance, and there's another to be lucky as "1 in 100"; the odds are always stacked against you, but with preparation & many attempts, your odds start looking better, and "luck" starts happening. (or not; some people are indeed unlucky, despite doing everything right. But that's less common than the other extreme - people that get lucky despite not doing anything rights).
_ZeD_ 6y ago
however, he would be still at "$17" of his first icon pack without the exposure trough MKBHD
- trystero 6y ago
  He was already "around the $6k mark in sales" before MKBHD which is already not too bad for (allegedly) 2 hours of work. He succeeded because his time to market was shorter than anyone else's.
oefrha 6y ago
The discussion just pointlessly spun out of control. The key to finding those 3626 people willing to shell out $28 was the exposure, with MKBHD being the biggest contributor. Whatever was the key to getting that exposure in the first place is irrelevant to my point.

vmception 6y ago

MKBHD picking it up had nothing to do with his journey or level of skill. MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular, a different designer dabbling with no prior mobile icon interest could have come up with something appealing to others as well. Being there and getting an influencer is what made this story, and can be repeated by anyone. OP is conflating the rest of it with his own trials and tribulations.

sumedh 6y ago
> MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular I think MKBHD also has to worry about his reputation, if he promoted something less refined his viewers might get pissed off.
- vmception 6y ago
  It can happen and happens to influencers all the time. I'm glad it worked out for everyone involved. OP's prior work is not why it worked out.

necovek 6y ago

That seems to ignore the fact that there are hundreds of people of equally "honed skills" not having earned $100k over 6 days. The key to a success of this type is luck. Sure, you can optimize for being on the path of success, but majority will still be missed.

jdmichal 6y ago
I mean, it's obviously both skill and luck. Like pretty much anything else that's "instantly" successful.
edoceo 6y ago
"Luck" is what happens when the prepared are given opportunity.
- somesortofthing 6y ago
  Being "prepared" for a given opportunity is often trivial. Whether the opportunity you're prepared for ever arises is luck.
  - acomms 6y ago
    If you're good and persistent eventually you get lucky. Most people just give up because being persistent is emotionally draining.
    - entropicdrifter 6y ago
      If you're good and persistent and happen to be prepared enough for whichever type of opportunity happens to present itself for you
    - Talanes 6y ago
      Do you consider death to be giving up or getting lucky? Or had you just not considered that some people try very hard until the day they die without getting lucky?
  - virgilp 6y ago
    No, you underestimate that. Being prepared is increasing your chances. There's one thing to be lucky as "1 in a billion" chance, and there's another to be lucky as "1 in 100"; the odds are always stacked against you, but with preparation & many attempts, your odds start looking better, and "luck" starts happening. (or not; some people are indeed unlucky, despite doing everything right. But that's less common than the other extreme - people that get lucky despite not doing anything rights).

_ZeD_ 6y ago

however, he would be still at "$17" of his first icon pack without the exposure trough MKBHD

trystero 6y ago
He was already "around the $6k mark in sales" before MKBHD which is already not too bad for (allegedly) 2 hours of work. He succeeded because his time to market was shorter than anyone else's.

oefrha 6y ago

The discussion just pointlessly spun out of control. The key to finding those 3626 people willing to shell out $28 was the exposure, with MKBHD being the biggest contributor. Whatever was the key to getting that exposure in the first place is irrelevant to my point.