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Lucas seems like the well-spring of ideas here. He goes on long rambles, almost free-associating, and then Kasdan or Spielberg will have a one sentence reply. And then another rant. It's like they're providing minor course corrections while he generates ideas and ideas and ideas...
Anyone familiar with writing rooms or the like, is this asymmetrical pattern common?
1ms is significant if you're a heavy user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4.
Your list takes a while to populate on page load. I would add some placeholder rows and a loading indicator.
It's reassuring to find someone who shares this sentiment. I hope people are starting to see the high cost that convenient services inevitably incur. Now we simply need the tools for individuals and small groups to cheaply create this alt-software.
Beware of gamification. There is a great talk[1] discussing intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation as it applies to video games, with the key insight being that extrinsic rewards decrease intrinsic motivation. The speaker references a lot of research that seems worth digging into too.
[1] https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012290/Achievements-Considere...
The counterexample here is the declarative style of programming. Most ideally this looks like an executable spec and is documentation itself.