Chris Best

there's sort of a natural benefit to having sort of less filter and being able to like publish frequently, putting lots of things out there.

You know, if you put 10 things out there and eight of them are kind of so-so and one of them is really great, that works.

Like if you're going to publish more than one thing a day, I might say, you know, pick and choose.

A lot of the most successful subsectors do five a week or more.

Yeah, I think people are, for things they really like, they have a higher tolerance.

The other thing I've heard again and again and again from people is I'm so frustrated because this thing that I worked on and polished for a month and put my heart and soul into kind of came out to a flop.

It was people read it, but it was sort of didn't really do anything.

And then this one thing that I slapped off in half an hour when I was angry in a parking lot or like I had something that I just kind of like,

came through me and I just dashed it off.

And I wasn't even sure, but I sent it before I even thought about it.

And that became the most popular thing I ever did.

Or that became the thing that got everybody into my work that got them to read the other stuff in the first place.

Have you ever heard the story of like the two sculptors?

I don't think so.

There's two sculpting classes and the teacher for the first class says, okay, at the end of the semester, I'm going to just take your very best piece.

A hundred percent of your grade is going to be based on the quality of only the best thing you made.

And the other teacher goes to the class and says, I'm going to give you a grade by the pound.

The more pounds of sculptures that you make, regardless of quality, that's going to be the grade you get.

And in this made up story, what happens is the people in the second class, when you go back and look at the best thing they made, it's much better.

Because of the practice, because of the benefit of momentum and getting going.