Hello Ana! Idk who you are but somehow substack brought your page to me and I just wanna say something about you line of thinking feels so fizzy. I find myself thoroughly enjoying it (perused your other posts too, plus the gold egg icon just… gets me). I also don’t know what to offer in return for letting us into your thinkpiece here, but on your mentioning of the tech world and how it intersects creativity, I thought I’d just share something—recently I attended a lecture by sf/f writer Ken Liu and he opined something that struck me enough to write it down: “Technology is a form of epic poetry. Engineers are expressing their values in the things they build”. There is so much poetry in everything and you seem adept at such a variety of ways of buildings. So at the risk of sounding glib, I hope you find joy with all the material things you’re building with beyond words
Hi and thank you for stopping by, Marliini! This comment made my day/week/probably month, if I'm being honest. I've been so in my own world and there's always this friction first when trying to get to something myself and then again when sharing it, and I can't think of a better compliment than fizzy. Your entire comment itself was joy and poetry. Thank you.
“Just because you’ve got the end result right doesn’t mean you’re getting it. I’m reminded of math class and the whole showing the work thing.”
That distinction matters. A correct outcome can hide a flawed process, and over time the process is usually what determines whether the result holds.
Hello Ana! Idk who you are but somehow substack brought your page to me and I just wanna say something about you line of thinking feels so fizzy. I find myself thoroughly enjoying it (perused your other posts too, plus the gold egg icon just… gets me). I also don’t know what to offer in return for letting us into your thinkpiece here, but on your mentioning of the tech world and how it intersects creativity, I thought I’d just share something—recently I attended a lecture by sf/f writer Ken Liu and he opined something that struck me enough to write it down: “Technology is a form of epic poetry. Engineers are expressing their values in the things they build”. There is so much poetry in everything and you seem adept at such a variety of ways of buildings. So at the risk of sounding glib, I hope you find joy with all the material things you’re building with beyond words
Hi and thank you for stopping by, Marliini! This comment made my day/week/probably month, if I'm being honest. I've been so in my own world and there's always this friction first when trying to get to something myself and then again when sharing it, and I can't think of a better compliment than fizzy. Your entire comment itself was joy and poetry. Thank you.