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Kevin Kelly: “To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.” Salter said the same thing, telling the Paris Review that he hates the first, inadequate expression of things, that much of the joy is in finding the

Kevin Kelly: “To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.” Salter said the same thing, telling the Paris Review that he hates the first, inadequate expression of things, that much of the joy is in finding the right words. I find myself constantly in the process of redoing. If I buy something and it’s not perfect I return it. If I write something and it’s not good I rewrite it. Three days ago I read a book on creativity and there were two contradictory pieces of advice: 1) write like…

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