URL: https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-survive-the-weight-of-an-entire-industry/
Here, Mike Monteiro responds to the question, "How do I make art without feeling stupid and/or inadequate?"
Love the answer. The last three paragraphs really hit home. Here's the final two:
The best thing we will ever be able to say about AI is that it could never create Divine. It can only create degrading copies of what we’ve fed it. But human beings can create connections that only human beings can make. Human beings can create what no one ever expected! Human beings create the stupidest, most glorious connections. And it’s because we’re stupid. And it’s because we’re inadequate. And honestly, it’s because we die. (Rut roh!) Only human beings can come to the conclusion that if not now, when? If not me, who? If not me at my most, why not? Human beings get one chance at this. Don’t take it from us.
I want you to make art because you feel stupid and inadequate. It might suck. It might be great. Sometimes they’re the same thing.