Part memoir, part working manual, from the frontman of a Hamilton band that spent about fifteen years getting to the point where people call it an overnight success.
The useful material is the unglamorous half. Show prep, marketing, the business of keeping a band employed, the decisions about which opportunities to take when you have no leverage. Most books about creative careers skip straight to the output.
The thesis is in the title and it is not subtle. Success is largely random and the only input you control is the effort, so keep improving and stay in the game long enough for luck to find you.
That maps closely onto shipping products. Read April 2025.