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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago

guy: how do I make great art picasso: make 50,000 pieces guy: ur kidding picasso: im not

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Ryan Stephens@ryanstephensalmost 6 years ago

Picasso created more than 50,000 works of art. How many are considered masterpieces that we still admire today? About a 100. Less than 1% of his creations are still relevant. Stop trying to be perfect. It's a numbers game. Start creating. Be courageous enough to share.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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new runner: how do I get better at running? should I go fast? do speedwork? intervals? do a program? coach: whatever, just keep running new runner: ur kidding coach: im really not https://t.co/8jdrPSXVSo https://t.co/U3CUUTO7fQ

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Ben Reinhardt@Ben_Reinhardtalmost 6 years ago
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@visakanv New climber: how should I get better at climbingExperienced climber: just climb all the timeNew Climber: ok!New Climber's Tendons: *riiiiiiiiip*

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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vlogger: how to become youtube famous some swedish guy: make 3,000 videos https://t.co/wZXyXFgwMr https://t.co/zmsweuvBZZ

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 6 years ago

I sometimes joke "who is this Pewdiepie person, never heard of him" – but the fact is he has published over THREE THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED VIDEOS. IMO, make and publish 1,000+ of *anything* before you gripe about missing some boat or hype train. Makers are usually busy making.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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how become really good writer who comes outta nowhere https://t.co/mUBHkhF0to https://t.co/xGMn0gV2eK

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 6 years ago

TIL that @morganhousel wrote 3,382 articles for fool dot com before I had ever heard of him and thought "wow who's this really good writer who came outta nowhere" https://t.co/ULm6UU3z7P

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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how to business? https://t.co/PbKYCxN7qj https://t.co/yi8M6xgHo4

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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make a sea of imperfect work https://t.co/ZwhIUIqSMV

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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Hokusai: - starts painting at 6 - wood-carver apprentice at 14 - understudies Shunshō at 18 - publishes first prints at 19 - starts taking students at ~40 He died at 88, but he had planned to keep working to 110 https://t.co/rRqq9nY7CR https://t.co/ffDiyBpKi8 https://t.co/lQ4zs9AHeu

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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Da Vinci: *takes at least 7,200 pages of notes* (h/t @nicklovescode for pic choices) https://t.co/0phJpCw0OK https://t.co/uuhK8UKG7A https://t.co/gOnqYxZIEz

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 7 years ago

Over 7,200 pages of Leonardo's notes survive to this day (I saw a set of them at an exhibition a while ago). He couldn't afford to waste paper, so he crammed his pages with lots of miscellaneous and divergent things. Wonder what he'd have done with an Internet connection

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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Do 1,400 podcast episodes https://t.co/ctb010RWGF https://t.co/X3G7PPcs2h

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago
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how to build a pitch deck for investors https://t.co/q4019A1WJy https://t.co/yvhiFJ1XFW

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 5 years ago
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“sketch 100 novel plots” - Nietzsche https://t.co/Uaf1yLhz82 https://t.co/4HBLxcMvh3

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 5 years ago
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aspiring starlet: what is your advice for someone who gets rejected a lot and wants to give up chrissy teigen: get rejected 100 times https://t.co/NMLRVpkFmd https://t.co/EkMiUSMgs0

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 5 years ago
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how to come up with a good book title https://t.co/njuafZxK0d https://t.co/33mpv6DDmw

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 5 years ago
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how to get good at game design? play 1,000 games https://t.co/f5OeEbxULp

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 5 years ago
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how to get good at making videos? https://t.co/P5nrwnHEBj

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 5 years ago
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how to get good at writing? https://t.co/d04LEx1Iku

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11over 6 years ago

A person on Twitter, paraphrased: "I wish I was able to write as well X but despite going to school and doing everything right, I can't." Write a million words. "But they'll be not particularly great words." If anyone remembered X's first million that's true of theirs, too.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 5 years ago
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how to write good songs? https://t.co/XwuYSTbQTa

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 6 years ago

Ed Sheeran advises Tom to be prolific (h/t @davelocity) https://t.co/OUhqvtPtbu https://t.co/UguAdmGSPb

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 5 years ago
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how become good comedian? chappelle recorded hundreds of hours of tapes of his sets https://t.co/Z63XwxMTbt

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 5 years ago
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meta commentary on Do 100 Things https://t.co/gLP9fT6faw

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 6 years ago

(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

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago
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"make 1368.75 beats" – Kanye https://t.co/v7UnLKbh0C

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago
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https://t.co/AqHJy0rXsc

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 4 years ago
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22. https://t.co/LPoWjjTvFI

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 4 years ago

whatever you think about him or his work, there's no denying that Seinfeld is a prolific mf. Here he is surrounded by his body of work (jokes he's written) https://t.co/tKZQTSamn9

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
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23. https://t.co/i8xtOFLXyL

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
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24. guy has been streaming 1,000 punches every day for 2+ years https://t.co/Lwe9Pugb3T

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
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25. 1 in 20,000 pictures were good https://t.co/sByQB3CdO4

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tim@wayfaring_timover 3 years ago

Do one million of something https://t.co/yvurBuc9sx

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvabout 3 years ago
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26. https://t.co/oitntIcntk

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 3 years ago
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27. "Paint Mount Fuji 100 times" – Hokusai https://t.co/f64KjK855q https://t.co/dtlEdhJp0o

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 3 years ago
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28. "talk to me on your 101st video" - @mrbeast https://t.co/L6hYJYD3zo

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 3 years ago
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29. https://t.co/LR2l6BNR7f

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 4 years ago

67. “Do 100 thing” might seem trivial if you’ve never tried it. But scroll up through this thread yourself and get a sense of what even 2/3rds of it feels like. It takes 2 mins each time to film but it’ll take you 2+ hours to watch all of it. Baby steps fucken add up!! https://t.co/w2Tjuh7gkj

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 3 years ago
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30. https://t.co/LGbqC1NASN

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 2 years ago
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31. write 227 poems https://t.co/uLDENkY4Si

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 2 years ago
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32. ten songs a weekend https://t.co/XpIjGF6PEq

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Tim Babb@tr_babbover 2 years ago
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@visakanv 😔✋ do 100 things 😌👉 do 10,000 things

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvabout 2 years ago
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33. “You only close the gap between what you make and the image of perfection in your mind with a sea of imperfect work.” – @seanwes https://t.co/ew6AQfv1KC

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francis@pachabelcanonabout 2 years ago
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@visakanv @SeanWes ...i should begin writing more

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvalmost 2 years ago
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@SeanWes 34. https://t.co/NMpXxxlYJl

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 1 year ago
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@SeanWes 35. Dua Lipa wrote 97 songs while working on her upcoming album https://t.co/LvZb7vAEbw

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 1 year ago
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@SeanWes 36. Billie’s brother Finneas was influenced by Outliers’ 10,000 hours and wrote it on their door frame, and joked about making her the biggest pop star in the world https://t.co/Q0Yl81q49B

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvabout 1 year ago
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@SeanWes 37. fix 100 issues

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Dan Hockenmaier@danhockenmaierabout 1 year ago

On Nat Friedman's first day as CEO of Github, at 9am, he had meeting with his leadership team over Zoom. They were probably expecting a long term strategy, but instead he shared his screen and pulled up a GitHub repo where users could submit and vote on product feedback. He said "we're going to pick one thing from this list, and fix it by the end of the day." He initially got pushback that it wasn't possible. But ultimately they found something that would work, and they shipped it that day. Then he said, we're going to do this again, every day, for the next 100 days. What did this accomplish? 1. It built trust with their customers: "We needed to show the world we cared about developers, not that we care about Microsoft. If the first thing we did was add Skype integration, developers would have said 'we're not your priority'." 2. It built excitement internally about shipping: "Github was a company that had a little bit of stage fright about shipping, so when we broke that static friction it felt great." 3. It helped Friedman ramp up as leader: he quickly figured out which teams were standouts, where there was a lot of tech debt, which stuff they shipped was good and which was bad. The big strategy (including becoming a leader in AI) would follow. But first, he shipped 100 things.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv10 months ago
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@SeanWes 38. drawing the same thing 100 times (ig: carefulartist) https://t.co/JSkxjNhjJa

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