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This might be one of those (quantity === quality ) situations.

What's that parable about the pottery class? The class is split in half at the beginning of the semester. Half A has an assignment to produce as many clay pots as possible, Half B just has to produce one perfect clay pot by year-end. At the end of the year, Half B has failed to produce perfection, while Half A has produced a dozen perfect pots by accident just in the course of cranking them out.

You gotta dig through a lot of dirt to get to the gems, but at a certain scale, the gems get really good.



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