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This month, I got to take a class with my hero Brian Eno. I’ve learned a lot so far, such as older people write flatter melodies, and a good melody comes out immediately.

Learning about how Herbie Hancock writes a melody, we come to realize that funk is about what you leave out.

It’s important to create characters when you’re making; truth telling is boring since art is about fiction even when it's attempting to tell the truth.

I’ve noticed it before but never quite fixated on it… recipes are poetry. To see more things like this, learn to see like an artist: to see something like an artist would, deconstruct the concept in your mind.

I guess I’ve been thinking a lot like an artist, figuring that you can either be motivated by curiosity or by shame and guilt.

Listening has become massively important as a result of this Eno class. Like how luck is about being ready for possibility.

Since it’s been holiday season, I’ve been thinking a lot about gift giving. I learned that the best gift you can give a recipient of your writing is being as concise as possible. Also that gift-giving is relational, not transactional.

An important lesson this month is: never interrupt someone who is having a hard time explaining because that's their thinking process.

Also, something that’s been on my mind recently is Linear Models, a subject that I’m currently studying in my classes at Johns Hopkins. The textbook is all about econometrics, and the idea that all economic theory is based on the idea that we want to maximize our utility. All of the models of supply demand are based on this (reasonable) notion.

We are subject to the illusion of knowing. We feel like we know something, but we might be making a confident error.

AI Is not magic. There’s not a little person on the other end of that computer screen. The less we think of it as magic, the more we’ll start to turn down the hype machine and get back to actual work.

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Brian Eno older people write flatter melodies a good melody comes out immediately funk is about what you leave out art is about fiction even when it's attempting to tell the truth recipes are poetry to see something like an artist would, deconstruct the concept in your mind you can either be motivated by curiosity or by shame and guilt luck is about being ready for possibility the best gift you can give a recipient of your writing is being as concise as possible gift-giving is relational, not transactional never interrupt someone who is having a hard time explaining because that's their thinking process the illusion of knowing AI Is not magic