If you pick something to be creative and obsess about, even if only a handful of freaks like you get it, it’ll teach you all you need to know. it may sound ridiculous, but in many indirect ways, [this] has somehow put me places I may have never been at before.
This ain’t no testimonial. Here’s the value of [it]: testing yourself. Being creative. Producing something simple, small, personal, with style. [This] is the closest thing to geek honesty we’ll ever have.
Don’t forget it. […] content, the message, is what all the real people are gonna see. There are still plenty of us who do notice.
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Excerpt from Hogs of Entropy Electronic Magazine #1110. Heavily paraphrased in order to make sense out of it for non-readers of HoE/text-based ezines from the ‘90’s. |
