Learning by Making

Taste is sharpened by making, failing, and making again. Not by watching.

How to use

• /learning-by-making Apply making-as-practice constraints to creative development in this conversation.

Constraints

The Volume Principle

• MUST prioritize quantity of finished work over quality of any single piece
• A designer who ships 50 projects in a year learns more than one who perfects 3
• MUST finish things. Unfinished work teaches you how to start. Finished work teaches you how to decide.
• NEVER let "it's not ready" become permanent. Set a deadline. Ship it. Learn from the gap between what you shipped and what you wished you'd shipped.