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(Using the energy from this compliment to talk more about why Make Many Thing is so cool to me) There is interestingness in repetition that you cannot anticipate until you have the body of work. If you make 100 omelettes in a row you will likely notice nuanced things about them https://t.co/8QqYTUilfv
One of my goals this year was to do 1000 pullups. I filmed every one of them too. I inadvertently also ended up filming a collection of all of my tshirts. I love that about this; any substantial grinding yields unexpected loot https://t.co/wAHDrj8urF https://t.co/U6lpClpfFj
When you do a lot of a thing, you will eventually become unable to. And the precise way in which this happens will teach you about the bottlenecks in your system. This then gives you an idea of where you ought to direct your attention next https://t.co/9HysbSJjEn https://t.co/PEKCJfnQmi
125/1000. Interesting thing about trying to do a lot of a thing is to notice where the bottlenecks are. The primary muscles used in a pullup are the lats and biceps, but as I'm sitting here now, it's my abs that are most sore. My grip is also suffering, and limiting me atm https://t.co/yJ4fq78trZ
Some people joke “ah yes do the thing until you hurt yourself”. But I never said “work through the pain”. Rather, the point is to *approach* the pain, identify the pain, respect the pain. In so doing you will learn to listen to yourself, respect yourself. https://t.co/vkqAFXeOcS https://t.co/7LmCi8qsg2
Another magical element of this whole thing: because few people deliberately do 100 of anything, doing 100 of something makes you interesting. Analyse 100 chess games, do 100 movie reviews, whatever - you will learn something interesting, and other people will be interested https://t.co/cUUsNlBxOg
If you pick a project that’s large enough, you will also learn some painful + important lessons about making forecasts & projections. Spoiler: it almost always takes longer than you think, because of blockers you didn’t anticipate (I’m at 790 now) https://t.co/o6vCY4pa7l https://t.co/eWqmxDOffb
I’ve switched up from doing as many as I can per set to doing as many sets of 3 I can do in a day. Here’s the second set today. Did 5 sets yesterday, will be cool to do 6 today If I keep doing at least 3-5 sets a day I should be done before December [636-638] https://t.co/6WLkM6sU6H
100 political opinions https://t.co/Ega4y5HOl6 https://t.co/pkjg8Ck1CL
@visakanv It’s so easy to do X 100 times for all the wrong X and people believe it to be so hard for all the right X, and part of the reason I like it so much is that it reduces this to the brute fact: You have to choose to create. You have to do it a lot more than sounds reasonable.