Craft

Reading this beautiful long reads post on the value of sustained attention and craft in the age of AI : https://longreads.com/2026/03/26/craft-in-defiance-of-ai-peter-wayne-moe/

Mary Oliver writes that “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” I am learning to pay attention, to be devoted to these songs, this craft, this instrument. And this is formative. As screens fragment our attention, as AI pushes for speed and efficiency at the cost of our humanity, as the academy puts a pinch of incense on the altar of innovation, slowing down and revisiting a text again and again (whether sheet music, a book, a recording, a poem) is a revolutionary act. It turns you into a particular kind of reader, one attentive to the minute, to nuances, to how meaning can shift ever so slightly when this word is used rather than that.