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Media pessimism about technology, illustrated by a 1903 New York Times article wrongly dismissing human flight before the Wright brothers.
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Thank you. Yeah. So I've been working on Vox in that way. But I also was a, this is a person who loves learning about technology. And I was looking at my media diet and I was really unhappy with it. I was really frustrated.
And I think to boil down the reason that I was frustrated was I felt like there was this knee pessimism in the news that I was
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Creative work as a partnership between disciplined human labor and mysterious inspiration, rejecting passive muse-worship and total control.
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And for me, the reason that is not a scary idea is because I don't ascribe to a sort of narrow view of the muse that says, I mean, I think that the two ways that artists are usually given to look at their work is either you are the servant of the muse, right? You're just a hand puppet. Or you are dominating that thing.
Like, you know, Nabokov said,
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