Things I've learned from working on creative projects for a long time: If you're very passionate about a project, consider working on it less! You need breaks to keep the joy and not take it too seriously, to be able to keep up in the long term. And you'll know better what to do and have better critique for your own stuff if you're away from it, get some space to think, and come back with fresh eyes.
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Things I've learned from working on creative projects for a long time: Don't try to solve everything right now, with all your brain power, just because you want results! There's less frustration in figuring stuff out in the back of your head and letting it take time. Sleep on it, wait for the answer, and when it hits - that's when you stop procrastinating. This gets much easier with experience.
Inefficient software comes from unnecessary complexity, which in turn comes from improved hardware allowing programmers to be less resourceful, businesses choosing profits over simplicity, complex human organizations moving their complexity into the code, programmers choosing frameworks over doing it from scratch, pseudo-science like "clean code", and from complexity reinforcing itself into more complexity.
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juntogawa
6 months ago
But it's culture, mostly on the internet, with its low barrier to entry that lets amateurs take over, that spreads the problem by making us believe it isn't a problem and that we actually need the complexity.
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German art students are very hot, but they also have very bad health habits. I don’t know if the former tricks you into potentially having to handle the latter, or if the latter prevents you from getting too drawn towards the former… Either way, beware!!
Actually good mainstream music (not the kind that aims for the lowest common denominator…) somehow feels more interesting and complete than more ”niche”/alternative/nerdy music. It’s simple but powerful. It can’t hide behind references, genres or serving fans what they expect. It has to strike something deeper inside people to work.
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Don’t do what others do, and don’t go against them either. Just do your thing.
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This is mostly for people who tend to become obsessed with being productive, and think it will give better results (in my experience it can give _more_ results, but not necessarily better. Quality or quantity?)
My way to get around this and still be productive is to work on different projects at different times, so that I'm constantly on a break from the rest of the projects. Can't wait to see what the drawbacks from this method are in a few years...