beginners or casual users who may ultimately decide they would rather do something else

learn to play music with whatever time they have left

how music in general stacks up to competition from all the other things you can do with your time and money

Limitless access to knowledge brings limitless opportunity. But only to those who learn to manage the new currency: their attention.

They exert agency, in other words, on the formation of the world beyond their head.

many of my generation are increasingly craving a return to this attentional autonomy. There’s something dehumanizing about the endless attention engineered feeds scrolling by on smart phones.