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I love this. I feel the same way as OP. Question in my mind is why is this? Can we understand what makes our own useless projects so engaging?
by asimjalis 5y ago
I love this. I feel the same way as OP. Question in my mind is why is this? Can we understand what makes our own useless projects so engaging?
- nicbou 5y agoYou accept from the start that you will be the only critic, user and contributor of the project, so you do whatever you want.
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoMy own guesswork answer: a 'useless project' necessarily combines a personal interest with the total absence of external obligations. Productive work sometimes has the former property, but rarely has the latter. A successful useful unpaid project might feel like an obligation, if there are users and a community around it. Note: does not apply to Fabrice Bellard, with his remarkable talent for building incredibly useful software on a whim, on his own, in secret (at least initially).
- scaramanga 5y agoThe intrinsic urge to create. That and the fact that the creation is taking place outside of any coercive or exploitative relationship.