When you learn how to make a thing, there’s this false dichotomy between making a lot of things and making really good things. In practice, people learning how to make pottery who were advised to make as many posts pots as possible ended up with a better “best” pot than students who were advised to make the best pot they can imagine. The world is really complicated. There’s so many aspects of any skill that you can only learn through repeatedly doing and gaining intuition about the craft and the possibility space.

I love the idea that everyone has ten bad books in them. If you ever want to get to the good books, first you have to write all the bad ones out of you.