Nobody says “I wish I could generate more options faster.” The hard part is knowing which option is right. The hard part is having a point of view in the first place. The hard part is seeing what everyone else is missing, or holding complexity without flattening it, or making a decision when you can’t possibly know how it’s going to land.

Photography didn’t kill painting. It reconfigured what painting was for. The camera took over documentation and painting became something else - expression, abstraction, impressionism. Things it couldn’t have become while it was busy recording reality. The technology didn’t destroy the art form. It liberated it into new territory.

Fear does something to your thinking. It narrows you. It makes you defensive. When you’re scared, you focus on survival - on protecting what you have, on not losing ground, on keeping your head down and hoping the predator doesn’t notice you. You don’t invent new things when you’re scared. You don’t reimagine what’s possible. You cling to what... See more