Sorry about the delay on this post. There was something I thought I wanted to talk about (The boundary between simulation and game especially as it relates to mmorpgs) but I realized I didn't have enough of a background to do the topic justice. Perhaps when I have done some more reading I will return to it. It's an esoteric enough topic that it is perhaps best for it to die a largely unremarked death.

What I have decided that I would like to talk about is creativity. Creativity is an odd an elusive beast. First a demonstration: pick the two most creative people you know and ask them if they are creative. Let me know what you find out. In my experience no one I know considers themselves terribly creative. This strikes me as odd.

I guess the thing that troubles me is that, by and large, our society seems to actively discourage creativity. We are trained to be orderly, mathematical, and logical thinkers. We seem to be of the attitude that everything has been done. Even in our more right- brained pursuits we have built up an overwhelming iceberg of cannon and formula that we seem to actively force on to young creators.

For my own part, I believe that creativity is 10% innate ability and 89% training. If given opportunities, inspiration, and leisure time we can all be creative. It's just not a muscle we exercise much.

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The thing that most excites me about the web... and always has. Is that it gives us all a relatively equal footing for creative expression. Marketing drivel and mindless content aside huge numbers of people are constantly creating things on the web. It seems to be the last place where creativity is encouraged.

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I started on the Headspace Blog project and had another idea. I would like to make some more collaborative and expressive form of community for the headspace. The blog code displeases me in its inelegance. I really want to make something elegant, flexible, and expressive for you. Do you have ideas? Share. :)