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"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself."

—Chuck Close.

See ValuesThe first entry. This site exists for gitminder as the daily-commit driver for two Beeminder goals, and it leans on wiki-links ,like colour-theory to connect ideas as they accumulate, in the tradition of a digital garden more than a blog.[^1]… for how this quote turned into First CommitHello, world! This is my attempt of creating scaffolding for a digital garden. I'm cautiously optimistic. There are a handful of entries based on the nature of the site itself. For example, values links out, bearminder is currently a stub,colour-theory….