AI accelerates discovery, but the struggle to discover is what forms the scientist.

Judgment can't be transferred, but built through curiosity, error, and revision.

The greatest invention may be the mind that makes invention possible.

Nikola Tesla once described a curious and remarkable habit. Before building a machine, he would build it in his mind. He would run it, test it, and find flaws without ever touching a physical prototype. The alternating current motor that would eventually help electrify our modern world existed first as an act of Tesla's mental construction.

What interests me isn't whether this was actually true in every detail. What interests me is the possibility that the process itself was the point. The motor wasn't simply an invention waiting to be revealed. The time Tesla spent imagining and refining it may have been........

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