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When creative partners discover conflicting values about commercial success

My creative partner and I started this project because we both hated how commercialized our field had become, but now that we're getting actual opportunities, we keep discovering we have completely different definitions of 'selling out' and every decision feels like a test of our principles that we're both failing differently.

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