In an era where AI has democratised competence, the scarcity has shifted from the ability to produce to the courage to discern.
Great to have your voice here on Substack, Christopher. Subscribed and I look forward to reading more. I would love for you to do the same, if my writing resonates.
Absolutely, George. I’m subscribing. Really appreciated this, especially your point that the scarcity has moved from production to discernment. That feels right to me. Grateful you read the piece with that kind of care and added your own layer to it. Looking forward to digging into your work as well.
This is a profound and timely manifesto. You have successfully identified the Great Inversion of the creative world: we are moving from a crisis of production to a crisis of selection.
That’s a sharp way to frame it, a crisis of selection. For a long time the advantage belonged to the people who could produce. Now that production is cheap, the advantage moves to the people who can decide. What deserves to exist. What doesn’t. That’s a very different kind of craft.
WOW! This is such a sharp diagnosis of our moment: execution racing ahead while discernment lags, leaving us with a “glossy landfill” of impressive but empty work.
I especially love your framing of taste as “what holds” rather than “what I like,” and the insistence that authorship is accountability, not ego, in a world of infinite, AI‑generated options.
That closing pivot from speed to standards makes the whole piece feel like both a warning and a quiet challenge to choose conviction over mere fluency. Great read
a lovely read, with novel ideas
In an era where AI has democratised competence, the scarcity has shifted from the ability to produce to the courage to discern.
Great to have your voice here on Substack, Christopher. Subscribed and I look forward to reading more. I would love for you to do the same, if my writing resonates.
Absolutely, George. I’m subscribing. Really appreciated this, especially your point that the scarcity has moved from production to discernment. That feels right to me. Grateful you read the piece with that kind of care and added your own layer to it. Looking forward to digging into your work as well.
You’re welcome - keep up the great work!
Wow I love the way you described taste vs preference.
Thank you for your kind words!
This is a profound and timely manifesto. You have successfully identified the Great Inversion of the creative world: we are moving from a crisis of production to a crisis of selection.
That’s a sharp way to frame it, a crisis of selection. For a long time the advantage belonged to the people who could produce. Now that production is cheap, the advantage moves to the people who can decide. What deserves to exist. What doesn’t. That’s a very different kind of craft.
WOW! This is such a sharp diagnosis of our moment: execution racing ahead while discernment lags, leaving us with a “glossy landfill” of impressive but empty work.
I especially love your framing of taste as “what holds” rather than “what I like,” and the insistence that authorship is accountability, not ego, in a world of infinite, AI‑generated options.
That closing pivot from speed to standards makes the whole piece feel like both a warning and a quiet challenge to choose conviction over mere fluency. Great read