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A broken clock is right twice a day.

No. People aren't clocks. The best way to make something great is to make ten meh things and discard a hundred crap things. I guarantee you everyone whose takes you admire also have many, many bad takes (which they perhaps don't tweet, but there's a definite trade-off here and PG's lower threshold for tweeting seems to work well enough for his goals).

I take it you're not aware/familiar of/with the phrase.

Here's a deeper explanation from a random Google search result.: https://www.businesswritingblog.com/business_writing/2022/05...

This here. Regardless of talent, you will produce quite a lot of junk.

I am a programmer and a published book author (8 books so far and over 35000 sold copies). I wrote a pile of shit, too, but it helped me become a better coder and a better author.

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