[karmakaze]

It's also a recipe for a bad work environment. It's good to have passion and accountability in doing good work. It becomes a problem when you identify with your creations, then anything said about it can only be taken personally without an ability to detach from it and speak/think objectively.

[rrrrrrrrrrrryan]

Actual artists are a little better at this.

Despite the passion they pour into their work, they understand that once it's out there in the world, it's not theirs anymore. The moment the artist lets go of it, it belongs to the viewer, who will interpret it differently through the lens of all their personal experience. And if the thing is any good, it will be heavily analyzed and critiqued, so to stay sane the artist has to completely let go of it and focus their energy on their next creation.

[karmakaze]

I was lucky to have learned this lesson from day one. My Atari 400 had no storage since it was beyond my budget and I wanted to save for the diskette drive rather than cassette. So I'd spend days making and playing with a single program creation, never turning it off. Eventually I'd want to do something else so click, playing Asteroids, and repeat.

[PH95VuimJjqBqy]

this is a caricature of what it means to care about your work.

If you don't actually understand it (and you don't), don't criticize it. Chesterton's Fence.