Too much time on their hands?

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/11/07/creativity-and-criticism/

by aycangulez • 16 years ago

31 5 16 years ago

This raises an interesting point. I've often expressed that same sentiment without examining the underlying emotion or motivation for it: I'm sad that you got something done that you wanted to do and I'm stuck here seeing other people coo over it while I'm working on crappy projects I don't care about.

Now that I see that I'll endeavor to never act so hideously towards another's creativity, for my own good, and try to make the time to waste on things I care about.

roadnottaken• 16 years ago

This is a great post. I can't stand it when people criticize others for the (sometimes unusual) interests they have, when the most interesting thing they do themselves is exercise or watch TV.

emilam• 16 years ago

Creativity and persistence are great, but the time still needs to be channelled in a constructive way. Otherwise you end up with products no one wants or ruining something with new many scope creep and feature bloat.

goosefraba19• 16 years ago

Unless your just doing it for yourself.

RiderOfGiraffes• 16 years ago

Cross-reference. Same topic, more in the article, many HN comments already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591218

Too much time on their hands?

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