what will I tell my younger self?

"Keep yourself outside the data set, away from the average. Be the best at what you do best. Maintain your independence of vision" - James Gurney. I'd share that quote.

As since, the quantification with mass media continues, along with expression being bowdlerised to meet.

Beware of the perverse incentives and industrial burnout, that's not accurate. Learn from the natural bodybuilding industry of multiple experiences. Ignore professional mediocrity, pursue freelance and own your schedule so that it's auto-regulated and healthy. Don't be a 24-on demand artist. Ignore hustle and sigma culture.

Take head of the labour theory of value, I don't be afraid of commitments, ideological commentary and editorials.

"Ignore the perverse incentives of hustle culture, of toxic productivity and toxic positivity."

Remove all axiology when thumb nailing and sketching.