Budding actors obsess about “process,” budding writers obsess about routine, budding makers obsess about tools. Like being more worried about how to dress for an interview than how to answer the questions you’ll be asked, each imagines that the magic lies somewhere in the approach to the act of making, as opposed to the making itself. The reality is that tool choice is both less important and more important than you think it is. It is less important to the extent that tool usage is entirely subjective, which means there is no one right way to do things. But it is more important, because the
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