I kinda agree with the sentiment and the overall message, BUT: I don't know what kind of social circles you frequent, but most creative people I know (including me) start learning the "how" because they are absolutely sure about the "what", and yearning to do it.
And the thing is: the surety about the "what" will wither, die, and be reborn again and again through the countless hours of learning and doing the "how". It will get deeper, more nuanced, enriched by the experience of failures and happy accidents. It will turned around on its head because of stuff you never knew before.
It will also change each time you do the "how". This is the essence of the "what" - the process of bringing it to life. This is how great art announces itself. It doesn't come from the idea in your head. The idea might give you momentum, but in the end, it's the process that makes it into what it wants and ought to be.
You can sit for years in front of the blinking cursor, waiting for the "what", and it will never come, because the true "what" comes out of experience. This is the problem we are faced with. As a species, we are trying to outsource experience. And too many of us are excited about it, for my taste.
So yeah, your recent posts do read like words of someone who has never really gotten deep enough into "how" and hence, doesn't understand it, it's relationship to "what" and it's time-based dynamics. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's what it feels like.
Last but not least, what has actually prompted me to comment here: you really can't say AI costs nothing. It has taken, and it keep taking so much, on so many levels.
But again, I feel like awareness of this is connected to understanding the magic of the "how".
Maybe I just don’t have a clue, or old age has just overtaken me. “No meaning to live for.” How about just showing up and doing whatever you choose.
The gap between intention and execution is continuously closing but by choice. Sure, we are sold better and faster ways but is that really a bad idea. When I began hanging doors in homes it was a full day sometimes two day job because it was all with chisels and hand drills. Then routers, power drills and templates made it a two- or three-hour job. Then there were prehung doors. They arrived assembled and you installed them all in an hour. These were choices that I consider positive.
We are still making choices today. Now I write and publish and I do use AI. I still do the writing but AI edits and helps immensely with marketing. I’m still making the choices. I choose to use AI and when the chips are down, I choose the end result.
I don’t believe AI has hidden anything from us. We can still make the choices.
Wow! Thank you for this. I need to sit with it and allow it to rest within me. Then I will read it again.
Thank you!
I kinda agree with the sentiment and the overall message, BUT: I don't know what kind of social circles you frequent, but most creative people I know (including me) start learning the "how" because they are absolutely sure about the "what", and yearning to do it.
And the thing is: the surety about the "what" will wither, die, and be reborn again and again through the countless hours of learning and doing the "how". It will get deeper, more nuanced, enriched by the experience of failures and happy accidents. It will turned around on its head because of stuff you never knew before.
It will also change each time you do the "how". This is the essence of the "what" - the process of bringing it to life. This is how great art announces itself. It doesn't come from the idea in your head. The idea might give you momentum, but in the end, it's the process that makes it into what it wants and ought to be.
You can sit for years in front of the blinking cursor, waiting for the "what", and it will never come, because the true "what" comes out of experience. This is the problem we are faced with. As a species, we are trying to outsource experience. And too many of us are excited about it, for my taste.
So yeah, your recent posts do read like words of someone who has never really gotten deep enough into "how" and hence, doesn't understand it, it's relationship to "what" and it's time-based dynamics. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's what it feels like.
Last but not least, what has actually prompted me to comment here: you really can't say AI costs nothing. It has taken, and it keep taking so much, on so many levels.
But again, I feel like awareness of this is connected to understanding the magic of the "how".
Maybe I just don’t have a clue, or old age has just overtaken me. “No meaning to live for.” How about just showing up and doing whatever you choose.
The gap between intention and execution is continuously closing but by choice. Sure, we are sold better and faster ways but is that really a bad idea. When I began hanging doors in homes it was a full day sometimes two day job because it was all with chisels and hand drills. Then routers, power drills and templates made it a two- or three-hour job. Then there were prehung doors. They arrived assembled and you installed them all in an hour. These were choices that I consider positive.
We are still making choices today. Now I write and publish and I do use AI. I still do the writing but AI edits and helps immensely with marketing. I’m still making the choices. I choose to use AI and when the chips are down, I choose the end result.
I don’t believe AI has hidden anything from us. We can still make the choices.