Too much time on their hands?(johndcook.com)

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

5 comments

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.

RiderOfGiraffes16년 전

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

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

roadnottaken16년 전

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.

emilam16년 전

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.

goosefraba1916년 전

Unless your just doing it for yourself.