Thread by @robertoblake

It comes down to the body of work:

I made about 1500 videos.
Written over 500 articles
Did over 300 podcast interviews.
Spoke at events on stage 75x
Did 100 audio podcast episodes.
Live-streamed over 2000 broadcasts.
Serviced over 1500 customers.

That is the gap.

If you think that is a humble brag I want you to imagine this:

Any one of those things by itself is 5000 to 10,000 hours I put in with no guarantee other than my own confidence and competence to see me through any of it.

Anything I have stems from work w/o guarantee of success.

There were hundreds of videos that didn’t get more than a few thousand views.

Interviews where I felt I could’ve done better.

Every article has a typo.

Stage events where the projector failed and I had to go cold w/o slides.

Live streams where the internet went down.

Every execution is tempting fate. It’s not luck that out of 10,000 executions you get some decent results.

It’s statistically inevitable that those results also compound if you’ve been at it long enough.

I started at 13 learning to code. I’m almost 37… I’m seeing ROI.

There is very little that I’ve ever done that paid off in under a year.

It’s usually 3-5 years and the only time it’s been less has been with intense focus.

It’s largely SHEER VOLUME that built my success in anything.

Taking more swings than is reasonable, refining each one.