devil's advocate - a story about the devil's actual attorney. "i'm a throwaway hypothetical for everyone, shorthand for 'hey lemme take the opposing view on this' but that's not what I do. night in and night out I have to defend Lucifer. sure the pay is good, fine, but..."

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is

Impatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin

“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”

— Bob Dylan