THE VIDEO SHELF · creative work and taste
Ira Glass on Storytelling 3
A five-minute clip of Ira Glass on the gap between good taste and early creative work. He says beginners know their work falls short and must keep producing to close the gap.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters return to it as motivation for creators who feel their work is not good enough yet.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- warphotography
- Topic
- creative work and taste
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Ira Glass's take on this is so good and I go back to it often when my creative work is less than satisfactory: [VIDEO] Basically when you work on creative stuff you're drawn to it because you have good taste, but for a long time …
fenwick67 on Hacker News · 2019-12
In Hexing the technical interview (2017)The first three minutes of this Ira Glass interview are pure gold, and I listen to them at least once a year to remind myself to keep fighting. [VIDEO]
michael-online on Hacker News · 2024-11
In Procrastination and the fear of not being good enoughGood luck! We can all do this. Create and create and you will eventually catch up with your taste. I have a personal theory that unhappiness is due to too much consumption, not enough personal creation. Even if it just a sketchnote or a doodle... …
wallflower on Hacker News · 2018-01
In Ask HN: 2018 resolutions?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.