Today, you don’t make anything.

Last week was the Lens. We cleared a filter somebody else had put over your eye, and you started trusting your own instrument again.

This week is the Ear.

This is the week you learn to receive before you transmit.

To listen before you make a single thing.

Here’s why that’s harder than it sounds. Before the phonetic alphabet, …

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Today, you don’t make anything.

Last week was the Lens. We cleared a filter somebody else had put over your eye, and you started trusting your own instrument again.

This week is the Ear.

This is the week you learn to receive before you transmit.

To listen before you make a single thing.

Here’s why that’s harder than it sounds. Before the phonetic alphabet, …

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