Tech is actually in a very scary “how about x but for y?” creativity rut. Read The Dream Machine, read some Alan Kay stuff. We’re *too* Lean Startup now. The revolution will not be A/B tested.
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It’s common enough to fear even entertaining an idea that implies empirically weak or ethically questionable axioms. But much of idea space requires SEVERAL of those ideas, and they must be allowed to become their own creatures, uncaged, wandering the cognitive substratehttps://twitter.com/rivatez/status/1107754395846868992 …
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Progress requires brilliant idea-people, ultra-competent executers, and risk-tolerant funders, and if there's a scarcity of one the others are misallocated. We're living in the least colorful kind of economic dystopia, with plenty of cash and checklistshttps://twitter.com/jb31842/status/1108067982369083392 …
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Did you ever listen to this back in the day? https://www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-giant-pool-of-money … This and similar books/articles (I can dredge up a few if you like) have been weighing on my thinking for years even before that episode was released
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At some point I came to the conclusion that the big bottleneck to further growth is a lack of innovative ideas to spur e.g. new startups. That there's nothing for people to invest money into.
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Is this the case? Creatives are often terrible at execution, discipline, relentlessness, confidence, mastering subtle social cues etc which you need all of to succeed in business. Maybe there are tonnes of creatives but they’re not in tech.
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Suspect you're not cutting along the joints of this thing, tbh. Most people aren't very good at those things. Most adults aren't easily creative, inc most people who call themselves "creatives." But it's never a good idea to integrate incompetency into your personal aesthetic
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Kanye West understands this concept in terms of art. “The most beautiful thoughts are always besides the darkest.” Can’t be afraid to go down the dark tunnel if you want to mine gold.
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