A nice essay from Cam Pedersen.
Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you just start over. The clay doesn’t care. It’s just material waiting for the next idea.
You’re gonna have a really bad time if you get too attached to it.
Code is the same way. We’re so precious about it sometimes, like every line is sacred. But it’s not. It’s just text. Delete it. Rewrite it. Start fresh. The idea survives even when the implementation doesn’t.
Code is Clay
