This episode was incredibly insightful, thank you so much!

When designing anything, you have to think about what it is used for, it's function. There are basically two kinds of swords- Those for stabbing and those for slashing. These designs don't look functional for either. Also, for the length of the blade, the handle feels kind of small. I personally like the third one at the top, it has a nice asymmetrical design to it that goes with the raggedness of the sword. Hope that helps :)

This particular episode has incredible value even outside the arts. I'm currently 23, but in 2018 I've enrolled in Biology as a college student. I believe you would be depressed with the mentality that students had there, it was like watching a speed-run. After each unit most students either forgot or simply had retained no knowledge of what they had been studying during that time period. Most graduated burned out and had to take one to two years of before heading to their masters degree, and a great percentage just didn't know where to go after graduation. By the second year I had an amazing physiology teacher, he was 66 at the time and in a class turned to us and said the same thing marshal said about grades as play money and encouraged us to take the course and savor it. I stayed there for 5 years, tried all laboratories that I had the chance to, and finally dropped out after understanding that my passion was in the arts and game development and am now going after a career in the field. But I would never have had the chance to find that if I didn't understand how to take my time and explore thoroughly what was available to me at the time! That being said whether in the arts, sciences or whatever course people are going through this podcast has really useful advice.

Regarding the question about an AI that could tend to your art need based on your genome: The way this could potentially work would be by projecting a model to try to predict your personality based on the likelihood developing certain areas of the brain through your genetic code. It would then always need to gather some information of your actual personality, through possibly some tests. In theory should be possible, but due to the heavy environmental dependent nature of brain development is should be very hard to achieve.

The first part of this episode gave me such a sense of relief, because I had the exact same question that I was actually gaining courage to ask on instagram, but decided to rewatch the entire podcast first just in case they had something here about it. Thank you so much for who asked that question and to the team for answering.