As I read more (just through chapter 2), I am amazed how it speaks to me. He talks about going through days of just devoted to writing without any writing. The ideas are there and I can’t see any reason why he does not proceed, but he does not.
In the same way, I find I have so many ideas for creating a variety of different things in both writing form and program form. It is all there and all I need to do is start. But yet I do not.
I also like is attitude that there is no one way of doing things. I think in the programming world, that is far too prevalent a notion, one that is irksome to me. There are certainly some very good recommendations about designing maintainable code, but I think that for small-timers, it is more important to just create and be free. Just as with a writer, it is more important to start creating and hopefully write than it is to worry about proper writing form. One can always cleanup later.
I am also impressed by how open Russell is with his emails. He is putting it all out there and it is amazing to see it.
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