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There's no pay off to this article. The thesis and justification for the position are there, but the author leaves you hanging. Just what are those terrible thi

There's no pay off to this article. The thesis and justification for the position are there, but the author leaves you hanging. Just what are those terrible things? Surely not: > It's there where I'd waste your hard-earned dollars on days of "unnecessary" and tangential work. > It's where I'd rent servers to compute seemingly useless shit - where I'd blow tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere just to gather more, to you, irrelevant information. There are very few individuals that I would trust to create something of value in an unstructured environment. At the very least, for most people I would want to hear about their approach to foster creative thought, turn that into actionable designs, experiment and discard and iterate.

vasco 5y ago
Not only I wouldn't trust that, I'm sure they wouldn't if they think the only reason is lack of VC money. There's no need for VC money to unleash creativity and create cool things, this is just the author blaming others for their inability to hit whatever weird creative standard they set for themselves. "If only they'd let me I'd change the world". The things that cognitive dissonance can make you believe are incredible.
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- erwincoumans 5y ago
  Agreed, limits don't prevent creativity and creating cool things, often they are encouraging.
  - NateEag 5y ago
    Sufficient constraints do prevent it, though. I have some (to me) fascinating and promising ideas about tooling around managing software specifications. I also have strong opinions about version control and some core ideas about how I'd like it to work. I'm a primary breadwinner husband and father of three children who lives far from any tech hubs. That makes it rather difficult to spend much time or energy on those problems to realize the ideas I've got. I strongly agree that constraints help creativity, but you can have enough to weigh it down rather than help it.
kingcharles 5y ago
Snorting coke off a strippers chest. That was what he was going to write. That's what I will do with your seed money. It was even in the "business" "plan" you never read. Also, NFTs something.

vasco 5y ago

Not only I wouldn't trust that, I'm sure they wouldn't if they think the only reason is lack of VC money. There's no need for VC money to unleash creativity and create cool things, this is just the author blaming others for their inability to hit whatever weird creative standard they set for themselves. "If only they'd let me I'd change the world". The things that cognitive dissonance can make you believe are incredible.

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erwincoumans 5y ago
Agreed, limits don't prevent creativity and creating cool things, often they are encouraging.
- NateEag 5y ago
  Sufficient constraints do prevent it, though. I have some (to me) fascinating and promising ideas about tooling around managing software specifications. I also have strong opinions about version control and some core ideas about how I'd like it to work. I'm a primary breadwinner husband and father of three children who lives far from any tech hubs. That makes it rather difficult to spend much time or energy on those problems to realize the ideas I've got. I strongly agree that constraints help creativity, but you can have enough to weigh it down rather than help it.

kingcharles 5y ago

Snorting coke off a strippers chest. That was what he was going to write. That's what I will do with your seed money. It was even in the "business" "plan" you never read. Also, NFTs something.