[ChrisMarshallNY]

> What would you create even if no one ever saw it?

I pretty much do that, every day. I write stuff that I want; whether or not anyone else does, and I don't really bother to don a sandwich board.

The one thing that I did for other folks, has taken off, but it took ten years. One reason was that I didn't spend a whole lot of time, tubthumping.

[olvy0]

I too create, but very small things and not very often. Things I never show to anyone else, except, sometimes, to my SO. I'm not on any social media platform except here on HN.

Short poems which I write on my phone, once in a month or two. A small utility that does something new and novel once in a couple of months, which is kept on my hard disk and never uploaded anywhere.

These are not enough for me to feel very creative. I try to limit my passive consumption of HN/tv/movies/dev news/games and keep my FOMO in check, but it's difficult.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I stay off of Twitter, LinkedIN, and Facebook, but need to keep accounts. I'll make a post, every now and then. I don't doomscroll.

HN is pretty much my only e-interaction with others (besides some Slack, Zoom, and messaging, for the project I'm implementing), which explains my rather voluminous activity, hereabouts.

[samsquire]

I write ideas for computers down. See my profile. I am obscure but everytime I have an idea I write it down.

It's a muscle, the more you use it the more you get of them. If you want more ideas you have to tease them out.

[DarylZero]

If you are really creating things no one sees, how come I never see you doing it?

[ChrisMarshallNY]

You're not looking?

[DarylZero]

Was just trying to make a joke about confirmation bias.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I know. I was joking, too. Someone downvoted you, and I upvoted.

It's all good.