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FOCUS If you are very talented and very lucky, you can probably do one new thing per week. In my experience, thinking, planning, executing, and refining a new idea rarely takes less time. If you take a week off at Christmas and a few vacation days, that's an upper bound of 50 things a year. I bat less than this, sometimes by a lot. Maybe I can do 25 or 30 things a year. It's an iron law of software that adding more people scales less than linearly. So if I'm working with many people on many things, maybe I can do 15 or 20 things a year. So if I'm lucky, maybe I'll get to try 100 or 200 new ideas for Farcaster this decade. And most of them will fail. When you realize this, you realize how precious focus is. I spent ten years working on software for other people and probably accomplished nothing enduring at all. @v is the most intensely, stubbornly, fanatically focused person I have ever worked with. It is his superpower. There can be times I feel some of the same emotions many of you do from the inside: it can be frustrating when the laser beam is not pointing exactly where I want. But I respect it because he's right, and because I believe it's necessary to accomplish something that survives. And when you find something that survives, it's foolish to throw it away, even if you're focused on something else. I work a lot and time out pretty much every day: there is always something else I could fix, always someone else I could help in my DMs, always more feedback on the TL. So I focus and keep moving forward. That's all you can do.

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