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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Doing Is Real; Being Is A Social Fiction

The other day someone sent me an IM and thanked me for my open source contributions. They then said something about wishing they had my gem/code creation talents. I didn’t miss a beat and informed them that I have no talent.

It is true. I have no talent. What I do have is a lot of practice.
Posted by Giles Bowkett at 12:37 PM
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