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I hope no software/web design people see analogies to creative web work and think that if they didn't get hired by Google at age 15 or they haven't been doing t
by henning 18y ago
I hope no software/web design people see analogies to creative web work and think that if they didn't get hired by Google at age 15 or they haven't been doing this stuff since 1994 that they have no chance of doing quality work.
In my experience the single greatest determinant of the quality of my work is the level of involvement/effort/passion I invest in it. I definitely subscribe to the 1% inspiration 99% perspiration school.
- DarkShikari 18y agoI find that its mostly inspiration--but that inspiration itself comes from perspiration. I've come up with simple but elegant ideas that turn out to be quite effective when applied, and the adaptation of idea to practice turns out to be relatively trivial. But in reality, I came up with that idea through a great deal of conscious and subconscious thought as a result of experimenting with hundreds of other ideas that failed. The "spark of inspiration" rarely is something that happens in a second, even if it seems that way initially.