The Emperor's New Technology

The tools are getting smarter. Are you?

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Remember The Emperor’s New Clothes? The story where a vain ruler struts around naked while everyone nods and pretends it’s fine?

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Yeah. Welcome to the remake: everyone dressed head-to-toe in software.

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Affinity launches its shiny new suite. Adobe drops another “revolutionary” update. Figma rolls out a feature that’s going to “change everything.”

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And suddenly, everyone’s in the parade again, polishing their prompts, chasing plugins, and rushing to look relevant. We’re not just using the tools anymore; we’re wearing them. Like the Emperor, we’ve mistaken technology for identity.

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But here’s the truth no software update can patch:

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No platform can give you taste, insight, or experience. It won’t teach you why something feels right, or when to break your own rules.

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It can’t replace the years of doing, failing, fixing, and growing that built your creative instincts in the first place.

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We’ve started dressing ourselves in technology and calling it talent. But underneath all that digital tailoring, it’s still you doing the thinking, the deciding, the creating.

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Defining yourself by your software suite is short-sighted. Because in six months, there’ll be a new version, a new feature, a new Emperor. And if your creative identity is stitched to the latest tool, what happens when the fabric changes?

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Technology will always evolve.

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Your value is what stays constant underneath it — your eye, your voice, your judgment. That’s the part no subscription, update, or beta test can replace.

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Don’t get me wrong, technology will make you faster, cleaner, more precise, repeatable, but do these describe creativity? No, they don’t. Eventually, they are nothing.

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Are you strutting around in clothes that will disappear, or are you dressed in you?