Lessons from @jackbutcher on technology, creativity, and trust 1. Easy progress is not valuable progress. 2. Creativity was never a volume game. More output does not create more audience. 3. The model pulls toward the median. Pull back. 4. Every creative practice can learn from software. 5. Ninety GitHub repositories are not a body of work. 6. A URL beats 900 PDFs. 7. Your past archive can outwrite you, but it can’t be you. 8. When the machine catches you, move up the abstraction tree. 9. You can’t learn from work you don’t remember making. 10. Sometimes the creative move is closing the terminal. 11. Contempt for the new is usually fear of the new. 12. Live is harder to fake. 13. Stream of consciousness is an anti-automation strategy. 14. Your output reveals how much you respect your audience. 15. People don’t resent automation. They resent deception.