{"id":3471,"date":"2010-06-05T09:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2010-06-05T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:43:45","slug":"quote-from-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/quote-from-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote from last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At his <a href=\"http:\/\/letsmakegames.org\/2010\/05\/28\/the-cake-is-a-lie-so-have-some-pie\/\">talk<\/a> last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccormick.cx\/news\">Chris<\/a> said something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nobody will ever care as much about your project as you do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>when talking about his labour of love: <a href=\"http:\/\/infiniteplatformer.com\/\">Infinite 8-bit Platformer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My takeaway from his comment was that, when working on personal projects, your primary motivation needs to come from your own emotional investment.<\/p>\n<p>Although other people may like your work, you can&#8217;t expect to be driven by the enthusiasm of others. Particularly not when the development cycle may span years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At his talk last night, Chris said something like: Nobody will ever care as much about your project as you do. when talking about his labour of love: Infinite 8-bit Platformer. My takeaway from his comment was that, when working on personal projects, your primary motivation needs to come from your own emotional investment. Although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/quote-from-last-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote from last night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-TZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}