A conversation with Jaron

Jaron

"I feel a lot less creative now, now that I've spent so long on reddit, metafilter, hackernews, designernews, hubski, listening to podcasts, reading books, and so on, because it's like a lot of ideas that I've wanted to do have already been done, or will pale in comparison to something else."

onlineidentityproject.com

You turn to blogs, social media and other sites for inspiration. But the more you read, the more you realise that all the good ideas have already been had by someone else in the world. Ever get that feeling? At what point does consumption of others' creativity online stop being motivation and start preventing you from developing your own ideas?

I spoke to Jaron about exactly this. To be honest, I think he is very hard on himself. He has started so many projects, is a wonderful photographer and writer, and is obviously a deep thinker. Have a read of our conversation - have you had similar experiences?