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title: Advice from Rasmus Andersson
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description: In order to be great at something, you have to do it 10 000 times.
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date: "2023-04-15"
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date: '2023-04-15'
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tags: ['interview']
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[Rasmus Andersson](https://rsms.me/) designed the [Inter typeface](https://rsms.me/inter/), co-created Spotify and GraphQL, and shaped Figma as their lead designer. His mastery of design and proficiency with computer science, makes him an industry titan and one of my personal heroes.
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It's important to underline his work ethic, as well as his prolificacy. He spends his free time tinkering and working on passion projects. Besides the most well-known work, there are a thousand of other [projects](https://rsms.me/projects/), which include multiple programming languages.
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It's important to underline his work ethic, as well as his prolificacy. He spends his free time tinkering and working on passion projects. Besides the most well-known work, there are a thousand of other [projects](https://rsms.me/projects/), which include multiple programming languages.
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Some time ago, I decided to reach out and ask for advice. He was kind enough to share his thoughts on [a tweetstorm](https://twitter.com/rsms/status/1645135344134942721) I'm compiling here.
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Rasmus's advice echoes what other people I admire have told me in the past. Working hard and [showing up every day](https://moonwith.com/posts/train) probably matters more than any other thing. Sometimes, it can be discouraging to not see results right away but we have to trust the process.
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Rasmus's advice echoes what other people I admire have told me in the past. Working hard and [showing up every day](https://moonwith.com/posts/train) probably matters more than any other thing. Sometimes, it can be discouraging to not see results right away but we have to trust the process.
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### Rasmus Andersson
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Every person is different and we all have a unique perspective, so it's hard to give general advice, but anyhow:
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Do! Make! Do a lot of work, do A LOT of work. The saying that in order to be great at something, you have to do it 10 000 times is true (in most cases.)
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Do! Make! Do a lot of work, do A LOT of work. The saying that in order to be great at something, you have to do it 10 000 times is true (in most cases.)
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You can read all the books in the world about playing soccer but the only way you can be a great soccer player is (obviously) by playing a lot of soccer (and maybe reading a few books.) The same is true for any path to mastery — you have to practice, a lot.
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A furniture designer doing that would be pretty terrible at designing chairs;
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"I design the most exquisite legs"
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"I design the most exquisite legs"
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Very pretty! But they break if you put the chair on a carpet and apply lateral force, so we can't ship that.
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