> I wonder if this applies to programming and other creative work too. It does. It’s a know aphorism that constraints bread creativity. A couple of examples (o

> I wonder if this applies to programming and other creative work too. It does. It’s a know aphorism that constraints bread creativity. A couple of examples (one of deliberate constraints and another of accidental constraints): Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt created “Oblique Strategies” as ways to challenge yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies The Köln Concert, which is “the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album” was improvised because there was a mixup and Keith Jarrett was given a terrible piano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Köln_Concert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Köln_Concert