Legendary bassist Leland Sklar put a switch on his bass that does nothing. He calls it the "producer switch" — when a producer asks for a different sound, he flips the switch (making sure the producer can see), and carries on. He says this placebo has saved him a lot of grief.
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[–] 15 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

I used to be an animator, and we'd deliberately put in obviously bad things just so the director could spot them and tell us to take them out so he felt like he was doing something lol.

But that'd probably work for writing too

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago

    We did this at my last job. Couldn't get user specs or feedback on fucking anything. Total unwillingness to commit.

    So we'd build the software wrong just so they could feel powerful and smart 'making' us change it. System requirements the stupid-hard way.

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