I find this very useful to think about when I get overwhelmed with riding the wave, as you put it. Sometimes the dramatic changes in the structures we inhabit combined with the uncertainty of the future become a form of despair for me, like why bother when the current structures of production and distribution and audience are changing? Working out of that self-imposed despair (for myself) requires a more honest recognition of the nature of the change, which you've described so well here. New scaffolding can be scary, but very exciting.
I find this very useful to think about when I get overwhelmed with riding the wave, as you put it. Sometimes the dramatic changes in the structures we inhabit combined with the uncertainty of the future become a form of despair for me, like why bother when the current structures of production and distribution and audience are changing? Working out of that self-imposed despair (for myself) requires a more honest recognition of the nature of the change, which you've described so well here. New scaffolding can be scary, but very exciting.