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Re:Progress Over Perfection by swyx on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:37AM (#25373533)
> Focusing on one thing instead of four is the key to success.

citation heavily needed on this one.

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Re:Progress Over Perfection by jf22 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:07PM (#25377161)
Really?

Besides far fetched hypotheticals I can't think of a reason why somebody would say spreading yourself thin is the key to success.

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Re:Progress Over Perfection by swyx on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:42PM (#25377635)
there's a long literature of:

- why even VCs diversify bets

- why working on side things helps your main thing

- how Nobel prizewinners are 3x more likely than the average scientist to have creative hobbies

- https://hunterwalk.medium.com/why-a-paid-newsletter-wont-be-...

and so on. i didnt say that having 4 things is spreading yourself thin. its just a really unscientific thing to assert without proof that having only 1 thing is "the key to success". so i push back on it.

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