This is excellent advice for everybody. Well said zoomlings. I remember reading about forge work and thinking it would be fun. I remember playing on a forge an

This is excellent advice for everybody. Well said zoomlings. I remember reading about forge work and thinking it would be fun. I remember playing on a forge and sweating pants and burning. I remember reading about advanced techniques and wasting a lot of iron and fuel. And I remember watching a master bend iron cleverly, and heat it minimally, achieving beautiful affect. Sometimes you don't need a hammer, you need practiced wit. Some call these folk teachers, or professors, or craftmasters, or what have you. The best are better than artists, they're scientists. Alan Kay is a great example. So is Knuth. Check out John Baez. I was lucky enough to meet Des MacHale. He could tell a joke ambidextrously in chalk and you'd split your sides laughing while learning mathematical context. He were that good he were better. Learning from others is faster than learning on one's own but we yield our sense of direction. Which is why innocent play is so important. Now get back to studying Jacob Lurie and reformulate, reformulate, reformulate!