Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)

This falls under the category of "how I won the lottery" vs. "how to buy tickets". The former isn't useful, the latter is. You can see an excellent talk about the difference here: [VIDEO]

This reminds me of one of my favorite talks of all time[1]. Applied to careers, I take the talk as implying that trying things is the secret. After a certain level of experience in your career, you'll know whether you like it. Branching off of that, it might even be the right thing to do to find a new career. One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received is "successful people do stuff. It doesn't matter what that stuff is, just do stuff and you'll eventually be successful". Some people will be luckier than others, and be successful at their stuff at a higher ratio, but overall, the ratio is about the same, and you just need to keep doing stuff. Also, one of my favorite illustrations/cartoons of all time[2] speaks to this point. Basically, if you pursue the same career for your entire life, you're probably wasting your time. once you have your x,000 hours of work in, do something new where you can cross-apply that knowledge into domains that need it. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] Edit: sloppy link formatting

I'm surprised I don't see a reference yet to Darius Kazemi's iconic 2014[1] talk, which is basically riffing on this joke for 10 minutes: [VIDEO] A key takeaway I've kept with me this whole time is the idea of there being two kinds of creative advice: (1) how to buy more lottery tickets, and (2) how to win the lottery. The former is useful, the latter not so much. [1] Wait, 9 years ago? That can't be right.

Darius Kazemi - "How I Won the Lottery" - a talk at XOXO Festival (2014) [VIDEO] brutally hilarious

Darius Kazemi did a talk on a similar idea. [VIDEO] Kazemi is more of an programmer-artist or -comedian, but he releases dozens of side projects a year, all relatively low effort. He uses himself as a test case and also examines KickStarters and how unpredictable their success is.

If you like this comic, you'll appreciate Darius Kazemi's talk "How I Won The Lottery". [VIDEO]

Here's a funny satirical antidote for "bet the farm" success-story fantasies like this one: [VIDEO]

When I saw the comic in my feeds this morning I immediately thought of Darius Kazemi's XOXO talk: [VIDEO]