cold hard machine… a tribute

so here's the thing. there's this guy i met in chicago at a design conference last summer. and he writes a blog that i check in with far too infrequently (it's hard for me to keep up with so many blogs). well every now and then he completely hits it on the head with something i have experienced. this one was dead on. his name is mad munkey, here is his blog. and here is his post:

Once when I was in college, I was working on a team project and discovered what some of my peers thought of me. The actual situation isn't important compared to the memory of what was said.

After pointing out a hole in a set of logic, one girl, exasperated, turned to me and said, "Do you ever make mistakes? You are like a machine."

I paused to consider her statement. Then responded, "Yes, I make mistakes all the time. But I try to fix them before they become problems. You just never see them."

I think about that conversation 14 years later more than I should. I was known as wildly creative, yet machine like. I have a problem connecting these two vastly different concepts in my mind. I wonder if I'm still seen that way. Am I a machine? So rigid in my search for perfection that I find disappointment or create expectations in others minds that they cannot hope to meet? I hope not, but I wonder...

thanks for making me feel like i'm not the only one who is like this, whether that's a good thing or not…