always true of everybody until they quit trying. SoC/fugue creativity exists at all levels of achievement. Cynicism has gotten to you 😂
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it's not cynicism. It's the history of art, science & tech. Sure unfettered creative flow happens here & there -- but most great work
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that said noted, one of the greatest rock albums of all time was supposedly cranked out in one fell swoop by Irish songwriting genius
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Nope. The core of the good stuff usually comes together in an anchor stream of consciousness episode. Engineering is ring around that.
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I don't think that is generally true based on my experience with writers and engineers ---
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Possibly sample sets differ, but having seen your approach and output, I think it's your philosophy. This may be where we differ most.
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we may be disagreeing about where the insight is generated. You say stream-of-consciousness episode. I think subconscious has insight
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and actual struggle is to pry it out and articulate it.
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in fact I'd almost define such work as stuff where you get elegant output without overhead where you can't easily point out core insight

