davidseger:

Q: Most Writers succeed by persevering and having a drive to succeed and to keep writing no matter what. What is your Drive to create, and do you have any advice to other writers who are having trouble persevering? 

A: I have no drive to succeed, I don’t persevere. Everything I’ve ever done that’s been hard to do failed. Everything I’ve ever done that was fun, and happened naturally, was successful. Sometimes you don’t want to write something. Good. I wouldn’t want to read it if you did. Go to the mall. Talk to your friend. Do drugs. Drive your car into a brick wall. Sit in your closet and cry. Obviously, you’re going to have to do something other than what you’re doing. Be at least as smart as a spider. If there’s no silk coming out of your asshole, or no flies in your web, you crawl somewhere else.

Lately, I’ve been having some flashes of “oh shit, I haven’t been making any silly content outside of my job” and trying to come up with schemes to force more fun and creativity out of myself.

Big ups to Dan and Dave for reminding my why that’s a bad idea.

Great read on traffic systems, and what happens when small European towns lose them.

Before reading this, I never thought I’d care about traffic engineers.