The kiss of death for creators

Redos are the kiss of death for creators.

You illustrate a chapter, realise your skills grew as you drew it, and now you want to draw it again.

You animate a scene, realise a way to improve the style, and now you want to animate it again.

You code a feature, realise a way of improving your semantics, and now you want to prune your old code right away.

This will prevent you from shipping anything.

We should look upon our past work with affection, not embarrassment.

It’s a part of our journey, like when we look at baby photos of our children.

We get to look at how far they’ve come.

And so it is with our craft.