> Obviously the most exciting story to write will be the one you want to read. The reason I mention this case explicitly is that so many people get it wrong. Instead of making what they want, they try to make what some imaginary, more sophisticated audience wants.
somehow, i have almost always made software as for my self if i were the user. And out of 35+ years and 20?30?50?70? projects, only 5 times this aligned. While in most ~~failed cases it was that i wanted much more sophisticated stuff than the eventual audience (if any). Or i was not connected to right audience. All the same.
so.. YMMV
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another one...
> It's a great thing to be rich in unanswered questions. And this is one of those situations where the rich get richer, because the best way to acquire new questions is to try answering existing ones. Questions don't just lead to answers, but also to more questions.
reminds me of something i told once to my mentees:
"searching answers.. does not make life interesting. Search for questions... then you beCOME interesting. And inconvenient. To the asnwer-producers (whole industries and institutions are only doing this).
which.. is already interesting :)
...Most People are either Answers - and boring ones - or not even Answers, only lay faceless. banal. incredibly predictable and.. like a transparent bag, you see through but can get through..
somehow, i have almost always made software as for my self if i were the user. And out of 35+ years and 20?30?50?70? projects, only 5 times this aligned. While in most ~~failed cases it was that i wanted much more sophisticated stuff than the eventual audience (if any). Or i was not connected to right audience. All the same.
so.. YMMV
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another one...
> It's a great thing to be rich in unanswered questions. And this is one of those situations where the rich get richer, because the best way to acquire new questions is to try answering existing ones. Questions don't just lead to answers, but also to more questions.
reminds me of something i told once to my mentees:
"searching answers.. does not make life interesting. Search for questions... then you beCOME interesting. And inconvenient. To the asnwer-producers (whole industries and institutions are only doing this).
which.. is already interesting :)
...Most People are either Answers - and boring ones - or not even Answers, only lay faceless. banal. incredibly predictable and.. like a transparent bag, you see through but can get through..
search for People-that-are-Questions. search. "
have fun