> At semester's end, all the best photos came from the quantity group.

The quantity group learned something that cannot be taught: that excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection, that mastery is built through befriending failure, that the path to creating one perfect thing runs directly through creating many imperfect things.

This reminded me of Roger Federer, who has won 82% of all matches but only 54% of all points.

I really enjoyed this article and also believe that in many cases doing is superior to planning.

Just a word of caution: the author doesn’t account for cost. All examples given are relatively low-cost and high-frequency: drawing pictures, taking photos, writing blog posts.

The cost-benefit ratio of simply doing changes when costs increase.

Quitting your high-paid job to finally start the startup you’ve been dreaming of is high-cost and rather low-frequency.

I don’t want to discourage anyone from doing these things, but it’s obvious to me that the cost/frequency aspect shouldn’t be neglected.