Comments on: Motivation

By: djmollusk

djmollusk — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:30:34 +0000

Kind of ironic. I was feeling unmotivated, avoiding work, when I decided to check out your latest entry. Now to get back to work. Thanks for sharing that story.

By: Kizzle

Kizzle — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:50:43 +0000

And here all this time I thought you did it for the chix.

By: H

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:53:41 +0000

have you ever tried buffering your blood PH with bicarbonate? bicarb can be used as a performance enhancer for endurance sports beacuse it makes the blood more basic and causes a longer onset before the lactic acid affects performance. so if you have a low ph try eating some bicarb…it works for some of my friends but it gives me the shits….but hey anything is better than kidney stones

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:35:03 +0000

Hey – not that you necessarily need the encouragement, given the above, but thanks for all these damn cool projects you’re working on.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:26:20 +0000

There’s a number of ways I deal with those problems.

First of all, I have a close (less than six) set of friends whose opinion I accept without question. Outside of that group, I take everything as suggestions.

Second, I have to make a separation between “public” projects (stuff intended to get attention) and “private” projects. For my “public” project, I simply have yet to encounter indifference, but that’s because I design them from the ground up to be interesting. My “private” projects are 100% for me, so I really don’t have any interest/worry about who pays attention to them.

This all sounds horribly egoistic, I know. I get accused of that a lot. But not by my six close friends.

By: Mike Whalen

Mike Whalen — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:50:15 +0000

I’m curious how you deal with rejection. Certainly you must deal with some. Or even people with strong misgivings about your projects.

Here’s another question: How do you deal with INDIFFERENCE? (I see very few creative types talk about this.) This might manifest as someone putting a project out there or announcing the start of a project and, well, you just get nothing.

Cheers,

Mike Whalen
http://www.thecomputervalet.com/blog