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Wow. It is hard to do that in a way that doesn't come off like... this thing.
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Wow. It is hard to do that in a way that doesn't come off like... this thing.
- amorphid 10y agoIn grad school I took a class on creativity from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi[1]. He described a creative idea as something that stands apart from other ideas in the same basket. Think of a large pile of plain ol' red bricks. Now show that pile ask 100 people who know nothing about bricks the question "what can yo do with this pile of bricks?" If 99 people say "build a worker computer by <brick-to-computer-process>", and 1 person says "build a house", then "build a house" is the most creative answer in that sample. Writing a SQL ad that was basically just a simple query using SELECT, FROM, WHERE. If 100 SQL writers wrote an ad, I don't think mine would have been all that creative, using the definition mentioned above. But as the only SQL-flavored ad in the personals section, it stood out as creative :) [1] https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-Invention/dp/0062283251 https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Flow-Psychology-Discovery-...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYes. However, there is a difference between creative and good: Most recruiter emails don't look like what OP got. But that doesn't make that one good. Yours seems to have been good.