
The Difference between Stealing and Creating [Colin & Samir]
The Swyx Mixtape
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Copying Is Not Plagiarism
This is a book called steel like an artist. The whole book kind of talks about this concept of stealing like an artist, like everything is an imitation of something that's how creative happens. Start copying what you love. At the end of the copy, you will find yourself. What we're talking about here is practice, not plagiarism. Plagiarism is trying to pass someone else's work off as your own. Copying is about reverse engineering. It's like a mechanic taking apart a car to see how it works. And i don't think the people who are looking down upon it are actually creators or artists,. Because they don't know that you need to do that.
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