As a almost total visual thinker, I often get in trouble for taking it too far and basically finishing a project in order to show somebody what my proposal for given project actually is.
My thesis supervisor always used to finish projects before submitting grant applications, as it was the only way to put together a reliable estimate on research projects.
The only trouble he had was when the application was bounced as being too large for the funding requested :)
From the article: And hey, that "better search" thingie you were droning on and on about? How much better can searching the Internet really be? Why would anyone care?
We get that quite frequently, so we just keep codin'.
It's something that applies to most art forms. The more you tell somebody what something is, and the less you show them, the more time it takes for them to comprehend it, and therefore the less it actually has an effect.
Of course, in creative writing it's a bit harder, since there are some very good ways of showing people things that have become deeply cliched, and it's considered improper to use those techniques. That's not the case online, unless you consider glossy buttons and rounded edges to be a cliche, which is entirely possible.
