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I loved you drawing at Queen Elizabeth Park, how it shows perspective with the grey tones of the pencil. It also looks like you worked without lifting the pencil from the paper. I once took a short class doing that and it's very meditative and fun. Thanks for reminding me of that. Also, the bit about not paying attention to the numbers. The numbers on my page are freaking me out and I just need to enjoy sharing my work with others and forgets the stupid, meaningless, distracting numbers. Thank you again, Nishant, for that whup up the head.

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Aug 9, 2023Liked by Nishant Jain

I'm so happy to learn about Goodhart’s Law--that's so useful. Substack is the first time I've ever dealt with numbers as a marker of my success. And it's a total distraction from what I *actually* care about, which is really just learning and producing work I'm proud of.

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Numbers have been part of my life and worldview for too long. And incidentally substack had been my way to not see the numbers!

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Love this intro!

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Thank you! 🙌🏽

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