Romanticism
We can know when personal software is right, in exactly the same way we know when a theory is right, when a painting or a sentence is right. — NeoVictorian computing by Mark Bernstein
Mark’s posts made me smile. I do yearn for personal software. I think the word ‘enterprise’ sounds clumsy. You can have an intuition for detail. You can only guess at the whims of markets. (Besides, the real way to win a market is to build what people love.)
I feel less violently Romantic than I did as a teenager. Tortured geniuses don’t seem that cool anymore. But I still idolize anyone who creates.