Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Creativity stuck in a frame creates Bullshit

Creativity is something that is unique to you. It is sort of a plugin that we use to run a software. If you are a writer you can use your creativity to write in a better new style, which makes you a creative writer. If you draw and come up with something that you have never seen before, then you are a Designer.

Creativity or a creative person needs a lot of freedom. what is troubling a creative person the most is the time. No one can decide how much of time a person has to spend on something he has never seen before. If a person can say so, he is not a creative person.

Why do we see bad creations? Is it a problem with the person who created the whatever? Now..Now..Don't make me laugh...Obviously it's the problem with the frame which you were put in to...When you are asked to create something, you are 100% free to do your creation. Then you are given small guidance by you project manager( probably it is a Word document or a print-out full of bullshit ) which cuts off 30% of your freedom. Still you start working on the masterpiece. In a few moments you see your project manager again standing behind your chair. You turn back and ask them "wuz up?" Then you are given a pleasant smile and asked "hi how is it going?" Now that is what an outsider thinks that they are ask you... But we developers know the real IT explanation for that sentence..Hmmm...So actually what they meant was "Why the hell are you taking so long to create a small thing like this"...Yup..thats about it.

Now another 20% is cut off from your creation due to Time problems. So you have another 50% to use your creativity. So you use it and create something and then the Quality Assurance thinks that it is not in a proper way or not usable and then you change it back according to that. So again 10% cut off from you creation and new QA ideas are added to it.

And that is how bull shit is created

Now you get what i say huh...you have actually spent less than 40% of your creativity on your own creation...Wait a second did i say your own creation!!! actually it's not your creation because you have only done 40% of it...

N-ko-ra returns
Nishan Shanaka Korala Gamage
writes to
Spontaneous Combustion
from Sri lanka