Tag: projects
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hammer meet nail
Creativity is sometimes, to borrow a turn of phrase, a hammer looking for a nail. Inside every creative soul there can be this latent urge to make something, anything, and despite the tools sitting on shelves or the technology idling on the desk, all of it patiently waiting for inspiration to strike, the creative hammer…
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coder thoughts
Coding is an iterative space in which I live. I build something that some would call a minimum viable product. It is little more than a toy that does something simple and basic and imperfect, yet it is functional. Once that utility reaches a certain point it is not unheard of for me to abandon…
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critical mass
After a year of pecking away at this thing I’ve learned to think of as a “writing life” I’ve found that I’ve kinda reached a critical mass of projects. True. Part of me thought I would have created something worthy of publication by now, but rather that has not been the case. For example, I…
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dabbling
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the idea of dabbling. There is value in the trying. What is failure, after all? By my reckoing failure doesn’t necessarily need to be a binary outcome. I mean, just because you’re not a raging success at something doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth trying, does it? …
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audio drama
In 2001, having recently finished university and found my first “real job” I packed up and moved to the west coast of Canada to a city called Vancouver. I had no car. I had few friends. I had a lot of free time. And I had the hulking desktop computer that had seen me through…