An 11 year old can do it

When I first got a computer as a kid, I wanted to make games on it. It was an i486 with Win3.1.

It seemed to be a machine for making things with.

It seemed not to have obvious tooling installed to make things with… but it, itself, seemed like a tool for making things with.

And so I made games. Lousy, janky, limited games.

Many of them never got finished, either because the idea got boring or the ‘play test’ got boring. But I shipped some games. And friends bought them. They got better the more I made them. I listened to what friends wanted, and put my spin on those desires.

I was 11. 25 years later I’m still doing the same thing: listening to what people want, and putting my spin on those desires.

Really, that’s the heart of running a creator-led business.

If an 11 year old can do it, you can do it.