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Russell Davies
russelldavies.typepad.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Russell Davies is an advertising planner and writer who posts on creativity, being interesting and lessons from agency work.
What HN saysCommenters share his posts on making interesting work, such as the 2006 piece on being interesting and the argument that quantity beats quality.
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Most-shared posts
- 1How to be interesting (2006)3 people · 173 points · first shared 2011 · 33 comments on HN
- 2Writing for Snobs1 people · 67 points · first shared 2020 · 92 comments on HN
- 3The awesome power of pretending1 people · 26 points · first shared 2009 · 3 comments on HN
- 4Just sell it1 people · 14 points · first shared 2009 · 5 comments on HN
- 5Then you play Hey Jude (wisdom art)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 6Things I learned at Wieden and Kennedy1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 7What would Clay Shirky do?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 8The pretending layer1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Death To Innovation1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Search engines off1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 11The Long and the Short and the Long1 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Pretending apps: Using ideas from Movie OS to make software fun1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 13Quantity equals1 people · first shared 2011
- 14Building creati1 people · first shared 2011
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jfarmer · 2011-11-04
When it comes to producing amazing work, quantity beats quality.
That is, it's better to produce 100 things and throw away 99 than it is to sit around a perfect 1. In the end the quality will be higher.
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2007/02/quantity_equals.html
philf · 2012-01-12
There's another interesting article in the same spirit: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html
HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279190
zachrose · 2011-11-26
Don't miss the backstory:
"And it soon becomes apparent that this issue goes a lot broader. Their course is designed to churn out mini-art directors, mini-account people, mini-planners for a world that increasingly just wants creative generalists."
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/building_creati.html
I was an art student at UO at the time, briefly participating in the journalism department's advertising club that brought Russell Davies to visit. So far, generalism is working out.
stdbrouw · 2011-11-23
There's something in what you say, but I've spent enough time in youth hostels to know that the connections you make with people while traveling, even if they appear very meaningful at the time, often turn out to be superficial. Travel is one way to end up a well-rounded human being, but there are many others. For example: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html