Saying “those people over there are getting popular doing this other thing. I don’t really like it, but it’s really working for them; maybe I could try that”,
that’s the recipe for disaster.
RICK RUBIN
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“Stay out of it; don’t participate in a game, that is someone else’s game. Play your own game.”
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