Majicman Notes

How to Create a Masterpiece: Quantity

Mathematically, you have three levers to create a masterpiece:

1. Increase your average: Get better.
2. Increase your variance: Try different things.
3. Increase your sample size: Try more times, churn more quantity.

Out of these three, the third lever is by far the best, because it’s the only one that acts on all three levers:

1. More quantity means you’re going to learn much faster by iterating, and you will improve your average quality. You improve.
2. More quantity means you’re going to try several things, different approaches, different disciplines. That will increase your variance.
3. More quantity means more shots on goal.

Unless you’re lucky, the only way to create a masterpiece is by churning stuff out.

Quantity Has a Quality of Its Own (Thomas A. Callaghan Jr.)

Tomas Pueyo

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/how-to-create-a-masterpiece