@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz I recently saw a meme: PhD advising == prompt engineering :) I think as we have more and more tools and we build more and more complex systems (in 1986 I had an 8bit C64) we also need to grow with the capabilities and the possibilites and learn to draw satisfaction from the completion of a goal and not only from the means. For me it is both about and not about Ithaka (I am highly annoyed about the long way home, given the two big breaks he took; the Cavafy Ithaka is different) https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/the-canon/ithaka I do not know whether I make any sense