True masters can focus: in art and strategy

I was once a huge Prince fan.

I still am, to a certain extent, but for a period of my life I was a fan on the level where I bought obscure bootleg albums with poor sound quality just to hear a song I hadn’t heard before.

At his (arguably) creative peak, in the mid 80s, his musical productivity was on a genius level. He produced famous hits like “When doves cry”, “Kiss” and “Purple Rain” but he also wrote hit songs for other artists under various pseudonyms while at the same time filling up his famous vault with hundreds of…