How to Do Great Work
List the key points
- Letting your mind wander can lead to valuable thinking, so avoid distractions that push your work out of focus.
- Cultivate your taste in the work done in your field to know what you're aiming for and strive to be the best.
- Trying to make something that people will care about in a hundred years can help you aim high.
- Discover broken models by being stricter than others and noticing signs of breakage.
- Be willing to break rules to fix your model of the world and come up with new ideas.
- Start lots of small things and be prolific in trying different things to increase the chance of discovering something new.
- Learn faster and have more fun by trying stuff instead of studying everything that's been done before.
- Make successive versions of your work to evolve and improve it over time.
- Pay attention to things that seem wrong or missing when learning something new, as they may represent undiscovered ideas.
- Know what you don't have to worry about through experience and focus on doing good work rather than chasing influential people.
- Copy openly and consciously, as copying can be a sign of superiority and can lead to originality.
- Seek out the best colleagues and work with people you want to become like.
- Distinguish good pain from bad pain and understand that work can be a struggle.
- Build an audience and avoid intermediaries to have a direct connection with your audience.
- Surround yourself with people who increase your energy and avoid those who decrease it.
- Find a kind of work where your ability and interest can combine to yield new ideas.
- Don't worry about being presumptuous or failing, and be willing to work hard to do great work.
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