# Note

> Your first hundred blog posts will not be very good. Your first thirty talks will not be very good. Your first fifty essays for the newsletter will not be...

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June 13, 2026

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# Note · June 13, 2026

Your first hundred blog posts will not be very good.

Your first thirty talks will not be very good.

Your first fifty essays for the newsletter will not be very good.

Mine were not. The proof of that is on this site, in archives going back further than I would like to admit.

What matters is that you are willing to be bad at it for long enough to become good at it. Most people are not. Most people want the gain without the slog. The slog is the gain.

I am writing this on a Sunday. I will write another one next Sunday. The math is the math.

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