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Rahul Jha
Rahul Jha

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Day 004: On Showing Up

This challenge is not about as much about learning or CS, as much it is about discipline and showing up. Showing up everyday, despite everything. The virtue Neil Gaiman talks about when we says:

Husband runs off with politican.
MAKE GOOD ART.

Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated Boa constrictor?
MAKE GOOD ART.

IRS on your trail?
MAKE GOOD ART.

Cat exploded?
MAKE GOOD ART.

Somebody on the internet thinks what you're doing is stupid, or evil, or has been done before?
MAKE GOOD ART.

Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually take the sting away, but that doesn't matter, DO ONLY WHAT YOU DO BEST.
MAKE GOOD ART.

So, I'm showing up here, everyday, to make good art. Of course, life gets in it's way, as it did today and I couldn't give a whole lot of time to learning, and towards making that compiler or writing about it. But, I decided to show up nevertheless!

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