Erin Pettigrew

Jul 09 2009 LINK

How do you make things?

You could lay out the process as a line… start at one end with a bundle of goals and plans… At some point, you get to the end, with a product, a novel, a performance. You’re finished!

You could lay out the process that way. But you’d be doing it wrong.

Making things is a circle.

— As in iterating constantly rather than releasing perfected final products. From Snarkmarket’s collection of essays New Liberal Arts (a laundry list of topics for contemporary study inspired by Kottke’s term ‘liberal arts 2.0’).