So much more at peace recently with the fact that I am not making a living from music.

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion In The Quest For Work You Love was a big factor in removing from my brain the "follow your passion" myths that plague society.

I don't have enough time to make music and make art right now and I desperately want to be able to spend more time doing it.

But, being a slave in the creators economy sounds like a nightmare.

You have to basically be in the "ad" business.

Having to think about other will like my music, or specifically trying to make things that will "rate higher on the algorithm" are very destructive forces, and don't incentivize the type of music I want to make.

And now we have generative AI and all that.

Reading Ancient Futures, and remembering music in the context of greater human industrialization is a big mindfuck.

For the majority of human existence, people used to just sing / play instruments for fun / expression / unification with god. Fast forward to 1950s, you became able to turn on your radio and hear the best people singing, the best song writers in the world.
Fast forward to 2020 and it's even more different.

This shit we are going through right now is super weird. Relatively we are on a new planet.

Social media is designed and operated to get your brain addicted.

So I'm very happy I don't have to `f*** with that sh*t