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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.

I don’t believe in overly-strict specialization. It’s too limiting. So, we push our coders to learn how to write well. We encourage our technicians to learn programming. We even bought a laser cutter to help our designers tinker. We push them out of their particular specializations to keep them learning. It’s a little uncomfortable, and sometimes t... See more

Making paleoart, especially of dinosaurs, inevitably means having to render massive living things for which we don't have good analogues. 🧵 of images that I think effectively convey large size. Starting with a classic by Wayne Barlowe https://t.co/0O1Y8B187h

That’s partially one of the ideas I was hoping to get to in On Scaffolding – that it’s worth doing a bunch of low-res sketches of things before you figure out which elements are worth spending more time and effort on

To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.