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The Best Work Happens When You Disappear

The story is usually told as an amusing anecdote about rock and roll. But it describes something that anyone who has made things — music, writing, art, design, even a well-timed joke — will recognise. The best work doesn't feel like production. It feels like reception. Something arrives, and you happen to be in the room when it does.

Who Is the Creator?

A few months ago, an AI-generated image won first place at a state art competition. The artist — if that's the right word — had typed a prompt into a machine, refined it over several hundred iterations, and submitted the result. The judges didn't know. When the truth came out, the reaction was swift and split down the middle. Half the internet said it was cheating. The other half said it was the future.