rules are the starting point,
and then you break them and become an expert

either an expert, or one of the idiots people warn you about.

It depends on what kind of expert. You can break the rule once and become an "expert" mother.

Agreed.. Its like driving. Follow the rules until you got your license. Then learn how to drive safely.

And become a prisoner

@electrineer that's what I noticed what happens when you make anything good

you can be a maker, producer or a spectator, a consumer

a producer puts themselves in their work and derives meaning from it

but a producer, if successful, then has their work stolen by other people. which to me feels like the prison