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Bret Victor appears to have dug himself down a rabbit hole that few want to follow. I think I've seen seen this pattern with esteemed but overfunded creatives.
by hitekker 5y ago
Bret Victor appears to have dug himself down a rabbit hole that few want to follow.
I think I've seen seen this pattern with esteemed but overfunded creatives. No constraints, no outside pressures lets their ambition run rampant. Their project swells into a formless blob; a generic vision, an absent strategy, and infinite amount of time to do anything their hearts desire. Over the years, the participants conduct a disconnected, purposeless exploration that goes in circles. The everyday motions will revolve around the colossal, omnipresent but invisible pride of the project's "visionary". Kind of like planets around a blackhole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_and_the_Cobbler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_and_the_Cobbler is an unfortunate but enjoyable example of a similar cycle played over decades in Hollywood.
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/medium-has-pivoted-so-many-times-it-has-now-come-full-circle.php https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/medium-has-pivoted-so-ma... might also be relevant too.
- JamilD 5y agoGall’s Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” I tend to be skeptical of long-term projects without intermediate artefacts on which we can provide feedback, iterate, and improve. I get the concept that they want to work quietly to build something as part of a grand vision… it certainly is not doomed to failure, but as the gap between vision <> tangible implementation widens, so does the probability of widespread success.