No accounting for tastes...

[flexagon]

I just got an especially interesting thank-you letter about my screensaver tutorial... I've decided to take down the details because I'm sick of telling everyone my dumb little ideas that end up amounting to nada. One reason I'm so hesitant with them is that it always surprises me which of the things I do people end up valuing and liking, and which ones I put lots of effort into but nobody else thinks is any good. Even at work, it's the things I consider intuitive and easy that people end up raving about... and vice versa. Does this happen to other people? It kind of annoys me. And makes me feel really stupid to boot. I guess this is kind of an abstract thing to get all P.O.'d over, but I hate feeling like my judgement sucks.

Comments

No raves about my stuff

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

The only person who raves about my stuff is my mom, and that counts for zip! From what I have seen, read, and heard of your work, you are pretty great at whatever you try.
As for your little ideas, they'll work out one of these days.
(I liked the details when they were up. :-D )

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I never got to see the details. :P Oh well... I think you should aim to please yourself. Foo on everyone else babe. When I started my cfmx blog on my site, I didn't expect anyone to be reading. Kind of like a little archive / don't forget library for myself yanno? Turns out, people do read it and I've been getting feedback, but it takes time.

Sometimes a thanks is worth it. If it were only that cut & dry. Sometimes you get a thanks and then end up getting 20 more questions and then you begin to wonder why you did it. ;) Like the guy I ended up helping yesterday. I got his server up and running via instructions through email and now I'm being bombarded with every little baby question after that. It's like, ok ok ok... time to move along now.

sigh. ;) Anyway, just don't forget to feel good about the things you do and don't worry about everyone else so much.