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Shane Parrish is a Canadian author and podcast host best known for founding Farnam Street (fs.blog), a learning platform dedicated to mastering the best of what others have already figured out. A former intelligence analyst at Canada's Communications Security Establishment, he is the author of Clear Thinking and The Great Mental Models series, and hosts the Knowledge Project podcast, featuring long-form conversations with world-class thinkers on decision-making, leadership, and wisdom.
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Master the step you are on.
Wozniak spent years designing computers on paper because he couldn’t afford the parts. “I learned to not worry so much about the outcome,” he wrote, “but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.” He’d design a computer, then redesign it over and over again. By the time he got real components, he’d already done the hardest work: the thinking. Most people rush through fundamentals chasing the outcome.
Woz had the patience to master each step completely before moving to the next.