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Thursday, 5 September 2002
Desire and Doing ::
I’ve remarked a few times recently that I have a way of spending a lot of time creating tools for some particular task—but ending up spending more time creating the tool than using it. I was talking to someone about people with artistic aspirations which they never get around to putting the effort into fulfilling, and her frustrations in dealing with these people, and realized a potentially unpleasant parallel: I have a career building music tools, and I got started in it because I wanted to use the tools I created, but spent vastly more time building the tools than using them. Is that right? ...