[waterlion]

I agree there's a lot of navel-gazing and self-aggrandizing. It's one of those regrettable personality traits that comes with the territory, I think.

But this post in particular was a nice contrast with that, a defence of not having to analyze one's own design influences.

[lmm]

To my eyes the whole "maker" concept is exactly that. If you like making stuff, awesome, but don't pretend it somehow makes you better than people who don't.

[waterlion]

Also massive confirmation bias for people who blog. Who knows what non-blogger-makers are like.

The novelty of doing something that appears to be 'new' can blind you to the fact that people have been doing it for millions of years. The only difference is that you now can blog.