IA and coding

Robert Rodriguez: Hollywood hacker - WebJillion: "Robert Rodriguez. Dude made an award-winning movie for $7,000, bucked Hollywood in favor of his own one-man studio at his home in Austin, Texas and overall just really embodies the start-up, bootstrap, whatever-you-want-to-call-it work ethic that I try my best to stay true to.
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“… you have to learn how to be technical, because if you can be creative and technical, you’ll be onstoppable … That’s why I started being my own film crew … When you’re self-sufficient, you’re scary. You don’t need anybody.â€?

Even though information architecture is what I'm really good at, I'm spending a lot of time becoming a much better coder these days. And the quote above shows why. If you are can build stuff, without having to hire people, you're way ahead already. Years of possibilities!

# Jun 26, 2006