“Creativity never comes to you – she will only meet you halfway.”
Derek Sivers is a programmer, musician, and writer. He has created several companies and products, including CD Baby, which became the largest seller of independent music online.
Questions
As programmers, do we have an obligation to create new things?
How did your interest in PostgreSQL evolve?
Why does Active Record complicate things?
What were the interesting engineering challenges at CDBaby?
You wrote a post about loss) in 2010 – can you talk a little bit about this and what you learned from this experience?
What is the most counterintuitive thing you’ve learned in life?
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