Chris Bowler interviewed me over the course of a month, and we talked about my experience with design, developing iPhone apps, filmmaking and being a neat freak.
On not considering myself a designer:
All my design work is for my own projects—things like Ego, my sites, other web applications—I’m the client and I’m not forced to work on a deadline. I could never be a designer by trade because I’m not particularly good at it in regular intervals. I get inspiration, I sit down, I knock out a design. But then I might not design again for two months. If I had to do it every day, I would be a horrible failure.
And “selling yourself”:
It seems perfectly logical to me. I don’t begrudge anyone who is good at self-marketing, especially when they’re talented at something (or multiple things). I do get frustrated when people become famous and/or successful when they have no inherent skills other than networking—what’s the point of being well known for being useless?
It was fun to cover so many topics in one interview. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, give it a read.
