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Two thoughts, one, his approach is orthogonal to that. This is a way to move yourself forward on any project, no matter where the design comes from.

Two, he IS the user! His example is the terminal emulator he is writing for himself. He says to write something that you will use yourself, as a good way to generate your own interest and involvement in it. Also, it seems like good practice to write something for the user you probably have the best communication with!

I used some of these ideas to get over the hump on a project today. Just get the simplest thing going to give a useful result, and that helps break the log jam!