Where Ideas Come From
Posted by Gavin Doughtie Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:04:00 GMT
Creativity is in the air.
Jill is writing her novel for NaNoWriMo, and Paul Graham is talking about new ideas for startups.
Me, I’m just trying to catch up after blowing off nearly all the boring, responsible stuff in my life to prep demos of xdraw for Web 2.0 and RubyConf.
At work, I’m derriere-deep in Purify and Valgrind, hunting down memory leaks.
Something I’ve noticed about creativity. It often needs to be preceded and followed by periods of “plain old work.”
Somewhere in the repetition, and boredom, and frustration of just working through something, you think “a #@!# computer could do this.” and POW!
That’s where they come from, for me, anyway.
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