The Useless Skills I Learned in Art School
Art school didn't teach me to make things. It taught me to evaluate them, four years of formal critique at a time, and that turns out to be the harder skill AI can't hand you.
Read the essay →Art school didn't teach me to make things. It taught me to evaluate them, four years of formal critique at a time, and that turns out to be the harder skill AI can't hand you.
Read the essay →Everyone suddenly agrees judgment and taste are the skills that matter. Nobody has updated the metrics used to hire for them, measure them, or reward them.
Read the essay →Getting something new out of an AI tool is easy. Telling whether it's actually new, and not just new to you, is the part the tool was never going to do for you.
Read the essay →Critical thinking is the skill every recruiter says they want and every instructor says is disappearing. Formal critique is a decades-old, unglamorous way to train it back.
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