Reading John Carmack's thought processes to approaching, addressing, and moving on from individual challenges is so fun and refreshing to me. Granted, the matte

Reading John Carmack's thought processes to approaching, addressing, and moving on from individual challenges is so fun and refreshing to me. Granted, the matter-of-fact tone is inherently humble, but it does seem like a tone of making the complex sound simple, intrinsically for the audience's benefit. Just a line like "unfortunate waste of memory...but it gives me the timing control I need" is a succinct demonstration of trade-offs and explanation without, well, seeming to have many outside constraints - well, I mean there's the pursuit of the functioning program, sure, but I get the sense freedom in this environment is used studiously.