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In creative work there is a real benefit to not following the financial incentives, and to creating scarcity for the sake of quality rather than for its own sake.

Drawn from what Michael Lewis said

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creativity Making something new: where ideas come from, what conditions let them come, and whether a machine can have them.

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

What Michael Lewis actually said

  1. Michael Lewis American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball
    When you're in any kind of creative thing, there is this benefit to not just following the financial incentives and and not trying to kind of like milk every last penny out of it. And to creating scarcity, not just for the sake of the scarcity, but for the sake of the quality.

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    ↗10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)youtube.com

    15 Dec 2025 · video · 2h 47m · spoken · machine transcript

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