I kinda disagree with PG on this one. What we should do is not "make good new things" but "maintain things that work and improve upon it". We have too many pe

I kinda disagree with PG on this one. What we should do is not "make good new things" but "maintain things that work and improve upon it". We have too many people that WANT to make new things. Ideally good, but when so many people value NEW things we obfuscate what good means. Maintaining thing that works includes everything: it makes you learn something,(how can you maintain something you don't understand?) often structured and you stand on a giants shoulder. Since it have been maintained so far, most likely it's also valuable. But also, most likely it can be improved upon. I think PGs essay here actually go against his previous post of "Great Work". In this essay he mention art needs to be new/unique but usually art (and fashion) is cyclic; they reuse and rehash old ideas all the time. And even in science, such as Einstein and Newton, they usually just IMPROVE on the existing understanding, although in a major way. Is newness essential? Not really in the modern attention based economy of 2025. Newness chasers are often similar to clout chasers. More noise there and you'll end up surrounding yourself with style over substance kind of people.