Aaron Levie
Taylor Otwell
Laravel
PHP
Michael Jordan
cloud computing era
Arkansas
Here's a list of my recent obsessions. Recent meaning in the past week or so
1.
Aaron Levie
being the
Michael Jordan
founder of the
cloud computing era
2. People are shortsighted in their desires. They think they want something right away, like to be a designer/programmer/founder right away. But I...
By the way I was just getting into
Laravel
at the point when I first found that video by Jeffrey. It made me see
Taylor Otwell
in a new light and the framework in a new one as well.
That's when i began recognizing all the simple, seamless interfaces the framework provided and not taking it for granted. Saw how much work and focus it took to actually present such simple interfaces to us regular devs.
There were no specific examples in the form of sentences of the first two. There were specific attributes however.
I believe the thing you are trying to deliberately avoid -- keeping the reader in the dark chasing you -- was one thing that made the first two more theatrical. Just the right mix of details and meaningful action (
George Saunders
likes meaningful action vs the word plot lol ).
I think that because you were following
William Gibson
to a tee you got that for free. Kind of like getting a ton of things for free when following the conventions of an
MVC
webapp via
Ruby on Rails
or
Laravel
.
I think these last two assignments reveal how difficult it is to get that blend of details + meaningful action right. I think going forward that would be a great Daniel thing to hone your craft on, but given that this is the final week of
Echo and Narcissus
club it's a good opportunity to just do some more Gibson copying.
PS I'm already reading that Saunders' book
Maggie Appleton
mentioned and it is so necessary for fiction writers. You will love it. Please check it out. I hope Maggie does end up organizing a club around it!
