I Stopped Competing With the Tool and Started Conducting It

For a minute I tried to outrun the machine.

Faster, more, keep up.
It was exhausting and unwinnable.

Then the frame flipped for me.

The future isn’t me versus the tool.
It’s me, with the tool,
against the version of me that refused to use it.

So I stopped competing
and started conducting.

I bring the why, the taste, the judgment.
It brings the speed.

I’m not the fastest player in the orchestra anymore.
I don’t need to be.

I need to know what we’re playing,
and why.

– Serguey Asael Shinder

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