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Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes in, saying: I wanted this to happen, I got what I wanted, so it's a problem solved.
But this isn't necessarily true. Yes, the changes were made, but did they improve the work? Or have they set off a domino effect that created other problems?
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from nearby suburban areas, usually without top-down planning. The office parks of Silicon Valley are one such example: the area had a surplus of land and gradually became the core of the American tech industry. In American urbanism, Tysons in Virginia is a common archetype: the area was a minor crossroads until the Capital Beltway made it unusually accessible by car, providing extensive auto-oriented density with little historic core.
Edge Cities With and Without Historic Cores
Alon Levy
This is why people join companies and quit managers.
Unfortunate Things About Performance Reviews
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