Zvi Mowshowitz: preference

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…It's interesting that you said that it's just an extra step. It's making things better, but it's taking longer. I am struggling with that a little bit myself. Mhmm. I've started making songs for every episode, and nobody it's actually people do care. People do seem to really enjoy them, and I get a lot of comments, and I personally really enjoy them. So I do think in some sense, it's making my output better. But talk about something that is definitely an extra step where I'm like, I'm not moving any faster. Definitely getting bogged down sometimes in listening to all these Suno song generations and trying to iterate to find something that I actually feel like I really like. That is a paradox right now that I don't really know how to resolve. Definitely doing more, doing better, but not faster, not saving time. Wait. Wait. It's the thing where if you were replacing the human version of it, where you had to go hire an artist or compose the song yourself, you'd be saving a ton of time, obviously, versus having that song. But, obviously, that's not something you can do within the production schedule. Even if it even if cost was no object, it's the time investment doesn't make sense. So you wouldn't have done it, and now you're doing it. Same thing with the editing. Same thing with art for my so, like, I I like to have a I like the value of a good banner. Right? To have a good artwork to display on Twitter because I have to see it constantly in the notification section. And also, I like to have them on the when you go to the sub stack, you have the pictures. And before, all I would do is I would take a I've been by default. I take a picture from the post. I just like, okay. Here's seven things I happen to put in the post, which would make the most sense. If all of them are terrible, I'll look for some stock footage. And I'll spend thirty seconds, like, googling for stock footage, and that's kinda it. And now if I'm not happy with any of the default solutions, I'm gonna spend a bunch of time generating something with Gemini or GPT image. And that definitely takes longer. Sometimes it has a really good payoff. I think a lot of people got a big kick out of the the giant array of valetizers of the fedoras. And sometimes that just comes to you because that that that one was just like I knew instantly that's what I wanted. And I just get one one command, kept writing, came back. Whoops. It's there. Other times, it's not so easy. But, yeah, like, it's the opportunity to make a better product, and then you have to do the work to make it a better product. It's like suddenly, you're issuing a print issue, now you have to make sure everything collates exactly right and everything lines up exactly right in order to get this better thing. And sometimes that is not, in fact, worth it. You have to know when not to do it. Right? Like, I I do wonder, like, with the Odyssey. Right? Like, Nolan films this thing with an extra 40% of the screen in this extra high resolution so that you can do this IMAX presentation when almost nobody watches it in IMAX. But you also have to make sure that footprint on the screen doesn't matter. And you're, like, starting to wonder, well, is it actually worth the extra effort, or was that that effort better spent on something else? I don't know. Yeah. For me, I need to maybe know when to cut my losses a little bit more. I have I'm very stubborn or somehow I feel like I have because I've set this expectation, if only for myself, that I'm gonna do a song for every episode. Now it's like, I really wanna follow through and actually make that happen. And I'm very reluctant to say, yeah. This one isn't working. I'll just ship this one without a song. I probably should be a lot more willing to do that because that would if I could cut my losses at the right time where it's like, you know what? I'm five generations in, and haven't heard anything good. I would save 90% of the time that I'm currently putting into something like that. But it it would involve, like, admitting defeat in certain moments. And for some reason, I have a real hard time doing that.…

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