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

Classical musician and educator with psychology qualification. Teaching and playing worldwide. https://paragraph.xyz/@katekornish https://zora.co/@katekornish

…what about composers and/or conductors?

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Nice! Yeah, that sounds right, I reckon! 

Making → 0..1 → it's a particular kind of muscle - 💪
and I think distinct one from those other forms of creative expression. 

But probably the same "kind of" intellectual muscle across domains, though.  

Languages, literature, dance, visual arts, music, symbolic creative manipulation.  The style of moves you learn to pull probably starts to look pretty similar when you bust down through floor boards on each of these varied of disciplines.

(Hey, Kate: do you reckon the variance of the four language you have in your mind, might also bubble up in enhanced musical expression capacity that you have but other performers with only one language, say, don't have access to?  The way these things malleably cross-cut in the brain fascinates me).

conductors — no, you can’t imagine the level on ignorance. but composers — yes. because they create things, not just repeat someone’s creation