I read this every year or so. So beautifully written. Explores so well this urge to not just be good, but to become a magician of your art. > Not only is any s

I read this every year or so. So beautifully written. Explores so well this urge to not just be good, but to become a magician of your art. > Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician. In order to write the new version of this life description, I need to imagine a version of myself who, by definition, I cannot understand. If I understood her she wouldn’t be magical. > The way to extraordinary growth and changes often involves a fundamental ontological or ‘lens’ shift in how you see the world. Magicians are wearing not just better, but fundamentally differently shaped lenses to the rest of us. Marvelous is word I would like to use.