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Something that seems really interesting and important from @ethan's notes that really resonated with me "The idea of the personal “Canon” for the books, people, films that have influenced your work".
Related to the post below - the idea that we are indebted to our influences, and that to understand how or why somebody thinks or does things the way they do you how or why they arrived at that collection of intersecting influences.
like a kind of /first principles for people/