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I agree there's a lot of navel-gazing and self-aggrandizing. It's one of those regrettable personality traits that comes with the territory, I think. But this
by waterlion 13y ago
I agree there's a lot of navel-gazing and self-aggrandizing. It's one of those regrettable personality traits that comes with the territory, I think.
But this post in particular was a nice contrast with that, a defence of not having to analyze one's own design influences.
- lmm 13y agoTo my eyes the whole "maker" concept is exactly that. If you like making stuff, awesome, but don't pretend it somehow makes you better than people who don't.
- waterlion 13y agoAlso massive confirmation bias for people who blog. Who knows what non-blogger-makers are like. The novelty of doing something that appears to be 'new' can blind you to the fact that people have been doing it for millions of years. The only difference is that you now can blog.