In reply to: The output doesn't matter

In reply to: The output doesn't matter Over on Lambda Create, Will writes that the output isn’t the part that matters. It has never been the part that matters for any Craftsman in the pursuit of any craft. Aristotle, who he leans on to make this case, agrees, and so would Emma Goldman (who I’m kinda becoming a stan for lately?) …though she’d take that claim somewhere Aristotle can’t follow. Goldman insists that the living cannot be deferred to some achieved future state. Like, if I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution instead of “we’ll dance when we win.” The dancing is the revolution. This is a constitutive claim rather than a teleological one. Value doesn’t accumulate at the end of a process, it exists in the process or it doesn’t exist at all. Gerund over noun. Which is exactly what Will is describing when he writes that the try/fail/learn loop is “how I refine who I am and what I believe.” The Thos Moser craftsman signing the chair isn’t certifying that the chair achieved its…