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Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers (kevinlawler.com)
37 points by kcl on April 17, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Programmers are not artists and have no "creative block". What is he talking about?


Programmers are not artists

True. Mostly.

and have no "creative block".

False (with a possible exception for mindless code monkeys, if such actually exist). It's not hard to get stuck on a wrong approach to a problem, or to know you're doing something wrong but not quite why it's wrong, or to have your mind go blank when you're trying to solve something.


I spent my college years writing very little code. Burnt out; too busy; depressed? I don't know; but I was blocked. Previous to college I had written thousands of lines per year, since junior high school.

So call it what you will. But it happens.


I think he means like gardeners or mathematicians do not have "creative block".




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