I’ve stopped caring about anything. I think it’s best described by how a friend summed up Schopenhaur‘s philosophy: he did a lot of thinking, and eventually decided that we can’t really know anything and should just listen to music. Probably a bit oversimplified, but it’s about where I’m at.
In one of the books I’m reading, I had a sudden flash of insight that I shouldn’t be reading this trying to figure out how to serve my projects, but to make all projects better, easier, whatever. Instead of writing a great piece of music, make a new instrument, or a new theory. Something that other people can take and run with.
It is really the idea behind open source, and the Creative Commons, and even the very internet. Now I just have to remember it.