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Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

#41

Post by anonzzzies »

I have done this all my life (which is also ‘my career’); it paid off accidentally big time in the beginning (90-00s) which made me enough to retire, but I like what I do (as per the article). Now I still work the same way but the money just isn’t there anymore, and the only thing to at I don’t do vs people who make a lot worse stuff but make millions is: get out there and act like I am a rockstar/musk. I hate that social media posing but it seems it’s the difference; we all have seen products here on hn that were absolute garbage but because the creator is acting like some football hero who just scored, many people go for it and they get subscription payments and vc moneys.

I won’t change my ways as I have enough money, but I would be quite… not happy starting out in these times and having to pose and fake until I make etc.

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

#43

Post by bayindirh »

pat64 wrote: post #17

I’m going to hard disagree with this. A lot of the enjoyment I get from creation is the process of others enjoying what I’ve built. Further more, building for others is great for building out areas you’re weak or inexperienced in. Like, I was poor on the accessibility front until I found the thing I created resonated with the visually impaired folk.

I think you're agreeing with the article without knowing it. Because you're doing what you enjoy at the end of the day.

For example, I design logos and small branding for my (mostly) CLI tools which I write for myself first. Seeing these projects at completion levels comparable with other, bigger projects brings a lot of joy to me. A coherent README.MD, nice documentation and good written code is what I aspire to do, and I do it for myself first.

If others like it, that's great. If it doesn't get any attention, then it's OK, because I wrote that tool to fill my needs first.

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

#44

Post by ionwake »

anonzzzies wrote: post #41

I have done this all my life (which is also ‘my career’); it paid off accidentally big time in the beginning (90-00s) which made me enough to retire, but I like what I do (as per the article). Now I still work the same way but the money just isn’t there anymore, and the only thing to at I don’t do vs people who make a lot worse stuff but make millions is: get out there and act like I am a rockstar/musk. I hate that s…

Sounds like a SF VC domain thing, I’m sure BS doesn’t work in other realms. Or was this early success in a different area?

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

#46

Post by imiric »

I generally agree with the sentiment of doing what you enjoy first, and not thinking about an audience that may or may not exist, but the suggestions themselves will vary from person to person.

> Design is for an audience and you don’t have one.

It's wrong to generalize like this. Good design drives your work forward, and if you enjoy doing it, then by all means focus on that first.

Not appeasing an audience even when you have one is also a good idea. Art is an expression of the artist, and it dies once it starts being created for an audience.

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

#47

Post by asta123 »

My son put effort into dressing up for his Year 10 formal as that is what you do. But during the event he observed that most kids focused on how they looked rather than noticing others, and thought he should have spent a lot less effort into his outfit :)

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

#48

Post by b33j0r »

Arcanum-XIII wrote: post #22
b33j0r wrote: post #19

So, if I’m hearing the zeitgeist correctly. Currently, the best competing advice I hear along venn intersections is: 0. Do less things 1. Do things at a natural pace 2. Obsess over quality 3. Don’t obsess over quality, eff the haters! 4. Do more things ;)

Uhmm, the correct way would be: 0. focus on less thing; 1. have fun doing them; don't stress about it, you're not competing; 2. do it, more and more. The important point is to DO. Everything else will come, eventually.

Touché. It’s just fun to watch this attitude towards productivity go in cycles.

Yesterday they recommended that it was a glass of wine, and before that two glasses of red, then a bottle of white.

We kinda always knew it was wine, and like… stuff we can abstract away about blood pressure, moderation, hangovers, fond memories, and whatever, uncle Conrad.

No, we solve that particular thing like all things. But as a consumer, you’ve gotta average out the signal of strong claims.

“Eff it!” and “Obsess over it!”

are diametrically-opposed opinions about work, which I suspect many of us agree with both, a bit.

We try to explain it over and over again as each generation finds the same problems with new tools. Maybe it’s not that bad—but hey, at least my commentary was coherent enough to post ;p

Re: Stop Acting Like You're Famous

#49

Post by sph »

zjp wrote: post #37
sph wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I defiantly do not want to see people's typos move the language forward, especially when it's native speakers always making the same silly mistakes, for some reason (could of, they're/their, your's, etc.). I do like non-native speakers translating and incorporating their local sayings into English prose.

I saw what was deleted out of this. ;)

In my defense I just woke up, did not understand what you were referring to and did not use Grammarly.

(I originally corrected the use of "it's")

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