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Aphex Twin shows that ballers work their asses off

May 11, 2015December 26, 2018

I’ve been doing a lot of research on SoundCloud recently and stumbled upon this story: apparently the DJ Aphex Twin has been steadily posting unreleased tracks under a pseudonym. Since January 26th (103 days ago), user18081971 has posted 208 tracks on his page – roughly 2 tracks per day. The word on the web is that some of […]

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Up your work rate and quality will come

May 16, 2011December 26, 2018

“A genius is a genius, Simonton maintains, because he can put together such a staggering number of insights, ideas, theories, random observations, and unexpected connections that he almost inevitably ends up with something great. ‘Quality,’ Simonton writes, is ‘a probabilistic function of quantity’” Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker.

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