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The Magic of Knowing Nothing
1:38:26 - 1:39:26 (01:00)
The magic of things isn't in knowing how it works, it's in the accidental, intuitive moments that generate something that works. Knowing how something works doesn't necessarily make it work, and it's okay not to know why something works as long as it does what you want it to do.
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