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This is inspiring: the dominant culture today is "oh yeah, it's going great".

One quote that has stuck in my mind is from Chuck Jones, quoting his own prof at RISD: "You have 10,000 bad paintings in you. The sooner you get them out the sooner you'll get to the good ones."

I eventually learned to just let that dumb idea (weld, program, drawing) get out. Some good ideas fail, and most bad ideas fail, but sometimes you can only tell which it was (good or bad) after the fact.




And some bad ideas succeed. Flappy Bird and ship your enemies glitter come to mind.




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