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from eloquent js
"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones."
Donald Knuth
- reminds me of improv: you bring a brick, i bring a brick, together we build a house
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it's like group therapy
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important to be really clear and simple with your ideas: sort of like single responsibility principle, it's easier on your partner if you give them one idea at a time so they can take that result / return, do something with it, and give you another thing for you to then do the same with
- "you had one job!"
- each function in improv takes a parameter: what the person before them just said. shouldn't return exactly what the person said, or reject the input. must do something with the input and build on top of it
a thought: what if a career simply funds your life so you can do other things? e.g. what if i worked part-time (20 hours?) as a developer (as the pay is good) and the rest of the time i do art / improv? ORRR what if a job is just that: a job? i don't have to love it, to live and breathe the job? that's not always attainable.