AI art is not, by definition, art. The definition of art is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.”

If everyone has access to the same ambiguous, potentially incorrect information, it’s no longer an advantage.

As a younger person, I loved compromises. What’s not to love about people agreeing on a plan they can both accept? Why does one person always need to win? 

Most art can be enjoyed long after it’s created. Not so with food.

Trying to motivate myself to lift weights is difficult. I get legalistic about it. I make bargains and cut deals with myself to do fewer reps, to lift less weight, and to stick to lifts I’m comfortable with. 

When you think you’re accurate, that’s when you neglect to double check your work, so you make a mistake. 

Is the level of success you’re able to achieve directly proportionate to the amount of pain you’re willing to endure?

I saw a tweet recently joking that the very first books were audiobooks.

To own a business that generates you many millions of dollars, you have to become a certain type of person. Is that worth it?

Of course there are days that are not enjoyable. Of course life presents hardship. Unavoidable, painful hardship. But who is the gatekeeper of your own enjoyment?

Living in Los Angeles has thousands of perks. It also has a few downsides. One of those downsides showed up on my apartment building’s driveway the other day, in the from of urine in a water bottle. 

You know that feeling, right? When you incorporate a new productivity habit, you see everything you’re accomplishing, and you feel invincible?

Why do we need to be good at things in order to try? Why do we need to be good at things to enjoy them?

I didn’t want to use pre-recorded loops for any of my songs. I wanted to create and record everything myself. If a machine did it, or if someone else did it, I wasn’t interested. 

“We expend effort. We create value. It’s easy to get confused about which one we’re going to ultimately be compensated for.”

Just now, I took a walk around the block to clear my head. On my walk, I witnessed two men in an argument about the ethics of their businesses.

The old saying goes, “Don’t believe everything you read.” This saying evolved to become “don’t believe everything you see on TikTok.” Now, we need to change it again: “don’t believe everything you see on AI.”

Is work-life balance the antithesis of greatness? Doesn’t it take a singular focus on one discipline to become world-class? 

This is what I learned growing up just a chainlink fence away from a vicious Rottweiler named Rufus. 

Sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about the perfect career. I imagine a time in my life when I’m only doing exactly what I want to be doing; a time when projects filter in for just the right rates at precisely the ideal times.