If Experience Is the Goal, Then You Always Win

The essay explores the idea that viewing experience as the ultimate goal liberates you from the fear of failure and enables constant reinvention. It draws on Miles Davis's anti-nostalgic approach to music, Lichtenberg's 'waste books' as a metaphor for creative process, and Cate Hall's concept of agency as opportunism. The author reflects on their own shift from personal writing to collaborative projects, emphasizing that waste and experimentation cultivate the mind itself.