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> But every now and then that inner critic starts playing its soundtrack: "That's not creative, it's a waste of time. You're giving away your work and efforts f
by swatcoder 4y ago
> But every now and then that inner critic starts playing its soundtrack: "That's not creative, it's a waste of time. You're giving away your work and efforts for free to a multi-billion dollar company."
Do people relate to this? Does this person think everything they do needs to be creative? Are they some kind of toilet bowl artist and interpretive toothbrush performer?
I understand striving to do more of whatever you care about, and being hard on yourself for falling short, but surely you can’t be measuring every action and every moment against that standard?
- leroy-is-here 4y agoI can relate to the critic, but not the particular words. I've said to myself, "Why bother writing if I have nothing to say," and, "What's the point of open sourcing this when there's the chance Microsoft just copy/pastes it with no attribution", and other similar thoughts.
- green_on_black 4y agoPersonally, "even if I have something to say, why bother writing? It's the internet, and people will either ignore, lambast, misconstrue, say ackshually, etc." I find it much simpler to lurk.
- pasquinelli 4y agoeveryone wants to be heard, and no one's listening.
- patcon 4y agoI feel differently, but can appreciate your comment as a sort of night-blooming flower, whose perspective is rarely heard from :)
- bityard 4y agoThe older one gets, the wiser they become, and the closer they get to realizing that 95% of the things they write online are actually just a giant waste of one's precious, limited time. (This comment is not going to be an exception to that.)
- urthor 4y agoCreativity is originality. Engineering is accuracy/precision. Financial is efficiency. Design is connecting to the human experience. Design is usefulness. Elegance, the appropriateness to the task at hand. It's about design. You must make things, all work is essentially about creation. But, nothing is pure creativity. Even surrealist poets must make things that connect to their readers.
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