100%. I was a magazine editor at the beginning of digital layout and design, and the editors, graphic designers, typesetters and photo lab people who became proficient in the tools faster than the rest were able to refocus on taste and judgement when they'd achieved tool mastery, and went on to achieve great things. Those who adopted late, reluctantly, or for ideological reasons? They were overtaken, retrenched, semi-employed and then driving taxis within the decade. Didn't matter if they were good or bad; they were just late.
Love this, Al. I think you’ve hit the bit I missed; the people who embraced the tool early bought themselves more time to (continue to) develop the judgment that really mattered.
100%. I was a magazine editor at the beginning of digital layout and design, and the editors, graphic designers, typesetters and photo lab people who became proficient in the tools faster than the rest were able to refocus on taste and judgement when they'd achieved tool mastery, and went on to achieve great things. Those who adopted late, reluctantly, or for ideological reasons? They were overtaken, retrenched, semi-employed and then driving taxis within the decade. Didn't matter if they were good or bad; they were just late.
Love this, Al. I think you’ve hit the bit I missed; the people who embraced the tool early bought themselves more time to (continue to) develop the judgment that really mattered.