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On my last day, I stopped by the @famsf.bsky.social . A compact museum, but spanning nearly a thousand years of art—from early Christian works to the exuberance of the Gilded Age.

There I stood in front of a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn. Mostly self-taught, he rose from a goldsmith’s apprenticeship to become Scotland’s leading portraitist of the 18th century.

His paintings often carry cloudy, ill-defined edges—some say because he never fully mastered priming a canvas. But what he lacked in polish, he made up for in psychological depth.

His portraits feel alive: flawed, human, unforgettable.

Those imperfections—the looseness, the unfinished edges—are what give his work narrative weight. They invite us in. They make us linger.

Back to the future: AI is dazzling. Efficient, fast, precise.

But precision isn’t the same as connection. To tell a great story, you need both.

AI will take us further than we can imagine.

But it’s our flaws—our beautiful, human flaws—that make us pause, connect, and return again and again.

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