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Ira Glass on Storytelling 3

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What it is

A five-minute clip of Ira Glass on the gap between good taste and early creative work. He says beginners know their work falls short and must keep producing to close the gap.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters return to it as motivation for creators who feel their work is not good enough yet.

  • 7 people recommended it
  • 7 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Ira Glass's take on this is so good and I go back to it often”

    Why good taste makes your early creative work disappoint you

    fenwick67, 2019-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Hexing the technical interview (2017)”

  2. “The first three minutes of this Ira Glass interview are pure gold”

    Opening minutes motivate creators to keep fighting through the gap

    michael-online, 2024-11 · Strong recommendation · in “Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough”

  3. “Create and create and you will eventually catch up with your taste.”

    Ira Glass on the gap between taste and early work

    wallflower, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: 2018 resolutions?”

  4. “a fairly famous set of remarks about overcoming the period of time when you know what good art looks like”

    Ira Glass on pushing through the period when your work falls short of your taste

    RickS, 2018-06 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How Do I Become as Proficient with Art as I Am with Computing?”

  5. “One thing I always like to go back to is Ira Glass's video on taste”

    Explains the gap between taste and current skill

    spondyl, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?”

  6. “Ira Glass has a practical take on the idea of exposing good taste”

    Taste shows your work falls short of your ambition, both motivating and discouraging

    rojoca, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “Is there such a thing as good taste?”

  7. “if you haven't seen the Ira Glass video, I'd take a look. It's pretty inspirational.”

    Inspirational talk about the gap the article references

    SeanAnderson, 2025-07 · Recommendation · in “Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ira glass, taste gap, creativity, motivation, storytelling

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