Ardent Meridian

I have been writing code, in one form or another, for over 30 years.  I’ve built games at a hobby level, business and entertainment software at a commercial/shrink-wrapped level, and had my hand in projects that have, individually, touched almost half a billion people.

In short, I know my craft.

During that time, across the many and varied projects I have been involved in, I have worked with a wide variety of extremely smart and talented developers, some incredibly talented graphic artists and animators, and several musicians whose creations can literally move the soul.

These people have talent, dedication, skill and creativity – not to mention more ideas for things they want to try or tackle than they will ever have time for in their life-times.

During my time in the software world, there is another class of person I have come across repeatedly.  Some of them consider themselves “designers”, others just say they are “ideas people”.  But one thing they have all had in common is a near total absence of any actual skill or ability at all.

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