Thanks! I don’t see nearly as much perfectionism (like none of the lyrics I can think of talks about rewriting things over and over), but I do think there’s an important element of obsession to Hamilton/Non-Stop, which I relate pretty hard to. Since I generate a lot of my expected impact from writing, and it’s quite hard to predict which of my ideas are the most useful/promising in advance, I do sometimes feel a bunch of internal pressure to write/think faster, produce more, etc, like a bit of a race against the clock to produce as much as I can (while maintaining quality standards).
So in the context of this song, I especially admire people (including the character Hamilton, some journalists, some bloggers, and coworkers) who manage to produce a lot of output without (much) sacrificing quality.
Hello fellow Zhang!
Thanks! I don’t see nearly as much perfectionism (like none of the lyrics I can think of talks about rewriting things over and over), but I do think there’s an important element of obsession to Hamilton/Non-Stop, which I relate pretty hard to. Since I generate a lot of my expected impact from writing, and it’s quite hard to predict which of my ideas are the most useful/promising in advance, I do sometimes feel a bunch of internal pressure to write/think faster, produce more, etc, like a bit of a race against the clock to produce as much as I can (while maintaining quality standards).
So in the context of this song, I especially admire people (including the character Hamilton, some journalists, some bloggers, and coworkers) who manage to produce a lot of output without (much) sacrificing quality.