Wait But Why
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2022 by Tim Urban · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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May 12, 2022
Urban: Write about topics when they are buzzy but widely misunderstood
“A good time is when it's buzzy, but people don't quite understand it yet. It's a good time for a topic like that. You don't want to do it when everyone's like read a bunch of stuff and they already have a sense of it and it's become like now there's camps, pol…”
May 12, 2022 positive
Urban: Low stakes and zero perfectionism unlock productive creative output
“I was doing a creative pursuit that I wasn't being perfectionist about, because I didn't pride myself on being good at it, and I didn't, I wasn't trying to do anything big with it, and so that's often how you end up in a really kind of loose, carefree creative…”