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Justin Timberlake, Zuck, and making things cleaner (PCxCP vol. 6 of 52)

March 3, 2021

A lesson from The Social Network: Figure out what the clean version is, but you don’t have to do it immediately

In The Social Network, Justin Timberlake is a Silicon Valley sage and gives some solid advice “Drop the ‘the’…” 

When I first started writing these posts, I had this tagged as “Pop Culture x Productivity”. I threw the “Creative” in there to

  • Make it a little more focused
  • Make it symmetric

PCxP vs. PCxCP

It’s cleaner.

In the end, either would be fine. But it gives me a little joy seeing that symmetry and that’s enough to make it worth it.

Some words matter a lot more than others. “Facebook” really is cleaner than “The Facebook”. I have no insight, but I’m guessing it mattered.

Spending an hour re-arranging a sentence in the middle of a book? Probably doesn’t matter.

MrBeast spends hours thinking of what title a video will have before actually making the video. In his case, every single word in the title really matters.

Spending hours thinking of a video title when you haven’t made or published a single video? The title doesn’t matter as much as actually making the thing.

MrBeast built up expertise to the point that single words  matter.

Zuck was in a situation where single words mattered.

Figure out when individual details matter and when they don’t.

Take the extra effort when they do. Don’t waste a bunch of time when they don’t.

  • Pop Culture x Creative Productivity
MrBeastThe Social NetworkTool: Sometimes polish the details
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