on creating...

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In general, do you find that your ideas come first, and then you figure out the tools to realize them, or do your ideas come out of the capabilities of your tools?

Is one way better than another?

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Tools come before the ideas. It's not as romantic of an idea - we'd all like to believe "I have this fully formed work of genius in my head just itching to get out!" But that's not how I think it works. Brain interacting with material reality, through the medium of tools. Its a process. Again, tools are first.