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I really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. My takeaway is don't be afraid to put an unreasonable amount of time towards something.

It reminds me of PG's essay "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius", which is like a hack on this idea. If you're obsessively interested in something, you're bound to spend an unreasonable amount of time on it.

Taking it even farther, there's a Revisionist History episode on the song Hallelujah, who's original version took over two years to write. The two components to "experimental" genius: time and iteration.

http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/hallelujah/