On doing it right

That project you’re working on… are you doing it right?

We ask ourselves this all the time.

But it’s a trick-question.

You might create slow, artisanal pieces that a select few adore. It’s not wrong because someone else prefers to make fast, cheap commodities.

You might want to work and spend time with your family. It’s not wrong because an Internet guru said you should hustle more.

You may want a modest income on your own terms. It’s not wrong because a business magazine said you should raise funds and try to build a “unicorn”.

I animate in Harmony, you may use TVPaint. I code in plain text, you may use an IDE. I like long-term positive-sum partnerships, you may prefer cheap outsourcing. I like the peace of debt-free, you may prefer the leverage of an overexposed position. I like macOS, you may prefer like Windows. None of this matters.

There may a few ways of doing it “wrong” (crime, for instance, notorious for being “a bad idea”) but there is no “right way.”

Just “your way.”