3-2-1: On cheat codes, love as a creative force, and how to make something great
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3-2-1: On cheat codes, love as a creative force, and how to make something great
If you’re going to do high-level creative work, you have to accept the messiness of your initial creations, knowing that excellence is born from the sisters of patience and iteration.
The second you start condemning young and fragile ideas, you’re toast.
andrea and added
As generative AI gets better at producing content, it’s important to remember that creativity is about far more than the outcome. The striking and wondrous thing about creativity is its mysterious seeds of origin.
Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
sari and added
"The secret of creative work is to make a lot and publish a little.
Don't underestimate the power of giving yourself permission to create junk. Most of what you create will be mediocre or bad.
But that's okay. You only have to show people the good stuff. Make 100 things, discard 90, and share the 10 best. Create, create, create. Edit, edit, edit
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Mickey Patel and added
Coding is a creative pursuit! Creativity thrives under constraints. Adding the “constraint” of a clear problem to solve allows engineers the freedom to explore and create a solution in the way they see fit.
The best engineers I know are product-minded: thinking about solving the problem for humans first and foremost, which leads to the next point.
The best engineers I know are product-minded: thinking about solving the problem for humans first and foremost, which leads to the next point.
Leonardo Creed • 7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers
Nicolay Gerold added
The Gap Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stu ff , it ʼ s just not that good. It ʼ s trying to be good, it has potential, but it ʼ s not.
Ira Glass • The Gap
Erlank Pienaar added
Where does this note go and how can I use this inside sublime. Especially as to how this connects to a specific step within a specific project..?
If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
Paul Graham • The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
Katharina Sommerkamp added
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. . . . But it’s like there’s a gap. That for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making, isn’t so good . . . it’s not quite that good. . . . If you’re just starting off and you’re entering into that phase, you gotta know it’s totally normal and the mo
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