Caroline Mays

Art critic and writer Robert Hughes reminds us that the closer you get to excellence, the more you notice what is missing:

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

Because of the 20 years he’s been cultivating his ability in the craft of writing, what he thinks to do is just different from what I would think to do. I’ve seen the differences in what people get out of AI. The people who can get the best out of it need it the least.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that interestingness is the very thing I feel falling away whenever I discover, or begin to suspect, that something I’m reading or watching was generated by artificial intelligence. It might continue to be impressive, or informative, but the flame that kept me fascinated sputters and dies. Which speaks to my point... See more

"Focus on the things you are for, not the things you are against.

Many people spend large chunks of their day thinking about what they hate. They are always telling you about something they dislike: this food, that subject, this political party, that coworker.

You are more than your frustrations. Build your identity around what you love."

Change your project, change your future. And your project is a direct result of the clients you choose to serve.

When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives—about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.

Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy