Bulldozer00's Blog

I’m currently in the process of helping a friend write his fourth book by providing feedback on the sections that he writes. As part of the creation process, he’s been discarding big chunks of work after revisiting them and finding that they don’t support the message he’s trying to communicate.

I don’t know about you, but I find it tough to throw away any work that I do (source code, models, algorithm designs, blog posts) – even when I know that it’s not good. I interpret this behavior as an ego-centric flaw and that’s why I admire people who can detect and chuck their crap. As the Buddhists say “Attachment brings suffering“.

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak” – Hans Hofmann