it strikes me so much that i have deep conversations with tech people, but never with professional musicians…

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it's wildly rooted in the size of the problem space for each.

i should add and the relative focus required to achieve in one vs. the other.

totally. but the difference is that here people are more focused on the future and it’s a completely different mindset with the ones that are conserved in the past