I’ve also spent a lot of my life thinking about a virtue that I consider the perfect foil of wonder – productivity. Pursuit of bare productivity often manifests as an extractive endeavor: how can we take something we are doing today, and make it more efficient, more scalable, more predictable? Productivity is about the industrialization of creation. Wonder, in contrast, defies systematization because it gets its power from uncertainty and surprise by nature. You can’t optimize wonder, because to optimize requires knowing the output and the process. Wonder is the discovery of new outputs and new ways of getting there.