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Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Epic post on how Nike lost $25B in a day by trying to make everything data-driven:
"Nike invested billions into something that was less effective but easier to measure vs something that was more effective but less easy to measure.
In conclusion: an impressive waste of money." https://t.co/YyLH98B0eH
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read th
Substack • Notes | Substack
Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse reflects on his journey as a writer, influenced by childhood fear, solitude, and listening. He discusses the power of literature, silence, and the significance of the Nobel Prize.
nobelprize.org
I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
—C.S. Lewis
On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
Stephen King • 10 highlights
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