“An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.” – James McNeill Whistler
The argument here is not that labor is not valuable.
It is that labor is generally a more interchangeable resource than vision.
Leverage is as much about where you are standing as how much force you are applying.
A great name communicates the most information in the most compressed way.
If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.
The constraint we apply to package our idea determines their reach & resonance. "Make 1 decision to eliminate 1,000 decisions."
Labor is generally a more interchangeable resource than vision.
To help understand this idea, consider the contrast between the two concepts ancient Greeks used to think about time.
It should be relatively simple to identify when we aren't accumulating net new experience, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be.
Language is an incredible tool. It makes it possible for us to externalize what we think and communicate it to others.
