> keeping this passion up is the really hard part which might be one of the key factors to startups that hit big or fail. This story got buried yesterday (and

> keeping this passion up is the really hard part which might be one of the key factors to startups that hit big or fail. This story got buried yesterday (and I will resubmit it since it deserves to be read), the story of the making of a Sesame Street iPad app, the struggle with the limitations of the hardware for professional 3D animators, the success (as exhibited by the engrossment of the author's kid). In it, the author describes legendary Hayao Miyazaki's work process: inspiration than lots of hard work: > When I worked at Pixar I witnessed a lecture by Hayao Miyazaki describing his creative process. He explained that he locked himself in a small room, sketched, and dreamed, awash in pure creativity. He would then emerge, and for the next three years: "much suffering."  We wanted to get the app out for the holidays, and it was early October. It wouldn't be three years, but we wouldn't get much sleep in the next few months. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108125 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108125