Value your work, even it’s shit

Long Pan
1 min readOct 9, 2015

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Back in the pre internet days I was a young college teacher and did many small design projects as my side work. Some of them looked fancier than others. So I kept the good looking ones (meaning with fancy presentation such as an airbrush painted interior design drawing, a computer rendered telephone etc). There were stuff that I really put into my time and sweat to build with my hands. But they looked a little rough and I was somewhat disappointed by the turnout. I felt ashamed to include those in my portfolio. After almost 20 years, I couldn’t even find a lousy photo of those models I made. They are long gone, without a trace.

It turns out, those ones, the ones that I really put in my heart into, regardless how good they are, are the ones I value most now. And I miss them dearly.

Originally published at longdlog.blogspot.com on June 18, 2015.

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Long Pan
Long Pan

Written by Long Pan

Product manager by day, tinkerer by night. I write about design, technology and better ways to make things.

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