alt Hacker NewsI think you must consume (I hate that word, but let's go with it) elsewhere. Someone said (maybe Stephen King in "On Writing"?) in order to be a writer you must be voracious reader, and there's no escaping this. It rings true to me.
Of course the problem of taste growing much faster than skill remains, but I don't think the answer is to "consume" (yuck) less. I actually don't know if there's an answer.
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gsf_emergency_2 • last Sunday at 5:08 AM
>yuck
Some alts to choose from: "use","utilize","imbibe","process","assimilate","experience"
zambal • last Saturday at 7:21 PM
I don't think it's actually a problem. Taste can guide the direction skill needs to go.
Something important is “consuming” critically.
You can be a passive consumer and never improve your taste or skill. However when you consume with the intent of asking how and then attempting to answer that question ( for skill ) and why ( for taste ) you get a much different experience.
Read code, looking for patterns. Look at design looking for patterns.
Then play, try to implement what you saw, implement to opposite and see how if feels, see what happens to the code.
This is a lot of work, but helps you improve.