Creative work

And what I shared is the one reason above all that I'm not worried about being replaced is what I call the note underneath the note.

Which is that by and large, people that do creative work, or I would even say people that are in the corporate world, we really suck at communicating what we want, right? And you cited a Harvard study that found that people, you know, we're going to get your best performance from AI very similarly to how we would just communicate with humans and teams.

And it's really the managers that are really good at talking to this as opposed to the coders or the engineers, right?

Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot there, right? A lot of points you're raising.

his face is like yeah no trust me this is our

life bro i'll split it down the middle So on one end, selling the vision as a man like you are, who is doing creative work for the most part, brand storytelling, stuff that isn't just, I mean, you've been in the system, but then now you've gone out of the system and you work for yourself in a more creative sense.

I'm trying to work for myself.

Trying to work for yourself.

I think partly

the thing they're trying to hit on is, well, Alana is very vocal and has been, I think, and that's part of what it's been about, how much she detests AI and its encroachment into arts and creative work.

And I think that part of it is you want a big... name that'll draw folks, but you also want someone who is aligned and she was very much like, I don't like it.

I don't use it.

I say this a lot internally because, you know, we don't just do the podcast.

We're like a little studio that does all kinds of stuff, so we're always doing creative work.

There is a process that I have experienced every single time, and it goes like this.

You have an idea, and you think it's awesome.

But where I do fall down is thinking I'm gonna finish work at 6:00, and then, you know, when I actually finish it's about half 7, 8:00.

[laughs] Sitting down on the sofa, putting my feet up, I do not wanna move from that spot until I go to bed, but I'll still pick up my phone and start doing some of my own creative work or, or media graphics or something, and that doesn't feel like work, so it doesn't count.

But it is.

See, that's where we're different again, isn't it? 'Cause that, I don't understand that, 'cause to me, that would still be work.

Felicia, I now want to move to the part of the episode where we talk about this kind of overarching analogy that we've been discussing this season.

And the question around this is that if your creative work is a colour or shade on the colour spectrum, what do you think it is and why?

It is teal.

It is so teal.

And that rings true to me 1,000%.

So I, I remember watching it, and I think I did save it, thinking, "Okay, so could I re-parent myself on this and tell myself, 'Yes, you can make money doing your creative work.' Like, follow your, follow your highest excitement, you know.

Listen to your pleasure.

Listen, listen to your passion.

But I remember when I was a senior in high school, and then through most of my college career, telling people, "I wanna be a writer.

I wanna be a writer." And people would say to me, "Okay, well, what's your backup plan? 'Cause it's really hard to make money as a writer." And this is a common cultural understanding that we have and one of the reasons why, as creative people, we bump up against this kind of invisible wall because we all share this belief, maybe in some ways rightfully so because of the way capitalism works.

But we all share this collective belief that, yeah, if you wanna do your creative work, that's fine.

That's a cute thing that you can do over there.