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embrace the grind: https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/ https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/
by hprotagonist 5y ago
embrace the grind: https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/ https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/
- bitcharmer 5y agoWow, this was a great and somewhat eye-opening read. Thanks for sharing!
- lioeters 5y ago> People said I did the impossible, but that's wrong: I merely did something so boring that nobody else had been willing to do it.
- mikesurowiec 5y agoI really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. My takeaway is don't be afraid to put an unreasonable amount of time towards something. It reminds me of PG's essay "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius", which is like a hack on this idea. If you're obsessively interested in something, you're bound to spend an unreasonable amount of time on it. Taking it even farther, there's a Revisionist History episode on the song Hallelujah, who's original version took over two years to write. The two components to "experimental" genius: time and iteration. http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/hallelujah/ https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/hallelujah/
- hamilyon2 5y agoI feel strong survivorship bias in this theme. What about them, who embraced the grind, spent unreasonable amount of time, money and effort, but were not successful? Doesn't that look so obviously incorrect in retrospect that we make jokes about those people?
- hprotagonist 5y agono; the grind is necessary but insufficient.