Generating is cheap now. Choosing what’s actually good is the art.

When making a hundred versions costs almost nothing, the scarce thing stops being production and becomes judgement. Anyone can fill a folder. The work is knowing which three are worth keeping and why, and being able to say what the others got wrong. That skill comes from looking hard at a lot of work and forming actual opinions, which is the part nothing can do for you.

Next time you make a batch of anything, cut most of it on purpose and write one line about each keeper. Practise explaining your choices to someone else. Spend as much time studying work you admire as making your own.