perfection

The Good versus The Perfect

January 6, 2009

Something I constantly strive for is perfection. I’ll admit it I am a perfectionist. I have written about this before. I have recently found myself editing, and re-editing just about everything in pursuit of some sort of non-existent pixelated nirvana. While this quality can be seen as admirable it can also be seen as a [...]

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Getting Caught By Perfection

January 10, 2008

Something I am reminded of every so often is my propensity to dabble in perfectionism. I think we all do it to a certain degree it just depends on what we care about. It is in this ‘dabbling’ that I can sometimes find myself getting pulled into a time-suck–a kind of bubble of perfection. I [...]

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Constraints and half-assing it

March 14, 2007

Well this week I am feeling it.  Constraints and half-assing it that is. Last week I watched part two of an interview that Merlin Mann had with Jonathon Coulton and one of the things they were talking about was constraints and how constraints, when you’re working inside them, actually help you produce great work or [...]

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