Justin Mather
@itsjustmath
All puns intended.
Justin Mather
itsjustmath.net
Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.... Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's wor... See more
Just for Fun. No, Really.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. - Rumi
The question of if a drum machine has no soul keeps coming back to me. No matter how sophisticated the AI gets, how much processing power we throw at photography software, a phone camera hits physical limits that no algorithm can overcome. Real bokeh requires actual optics, actual distance, actual light behaving according to physics.
There's somethi
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“It doesn’t matter if it’s good right now, it just needs to exist.”
First drafts - Austin Kleon
Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
James Clear • Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need...
An idea is different than a story. An idea can be sparked by a pattern noticed or an observation seen. But on its own an idea is not a story. A story is a compelling way to communicate ideas to others.
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