[gsf_emergency_2]

>letting perfect be the enemy of good.

My attempt to improve the cliche:

  Let skill be the enemy of taste

2 issues here. Neither can be developed (perfected?) in isolation, but they certainly ramp up at different rates. They should probably feed back into each other somehow, whether adversarially or not

[whatevertrevor]

The issue as the article points out is you can grow taste much much faster by only engaging in consumption, which leaves skill in the dirt.

[gsf_emergency_2]

I've heard that one way to pace is to... only consume your own stuff (aka dogfooding :)

More grown-up way to do it is to consume your mates' stuff?

(Trying to go from where TFA left off)

[the_af]

I think you must consume (I hate that word, but let's go with it) elsewhere. Someone said (maybe Stephen King in "On Writing"?) in order to be a writer you must be voracious reader, and there's no escaping this. It rings true to me.

Of course the problem of taste growing much faster than skill remains, but I don't think the answer is to "consume" (yuck) less. I actually don't know if there's an answer.

[jpc0]

Something important is “consuming” critically.

You can be a passive consumer and never improve your taste or skill. However when you consume with the intent of asking how and then attempting to answer that question ( for skill ) and why ( for taste ) you get a much different experience.

Read code, looking for patterns. Look at design looking for patterns.

Then play, try to implement what you saw, implement to opposite and see how if feels, see what happens to the code.

This is a lot of work, but helps you improve.

[gsf_emergency_2]

You've just suggested to me following optimization:

  Prioritize "consuming" your frenemies' stuff

Because one always has to pay full attention when doing that :)

[gsf_emergency_2]

>yuck

Some alts to choose from: "use","utilize","imbibe","process","assimilate","experience"

[zambal]

I don't think it's actually a problem. Taste can guide the direction skill needs to go.