{"id":7050,"date":"2025-09-13T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/embrace-the-creativity-of-others\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:06:21","slug":"embrace-the-creativity-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.wordcamp.org\/2025\/embrace-the-creativity-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace the creativity of others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/davenet\/1996\/10\/24\/QueSeraSera.html\">piece<\/a> in October 1996 after attending a conference of the tech industry that as it turns out was in its final stages. This was one of the last times it met. I was coming from the web, and wanted to see if anyone else was ready to change how we work with each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Here&#039;s an invitation to truly embrace the creativity of others. Instead of beating your breast about how great you are, try saying how great someone else is. Look for win-wins, make that your new religion. Establish a policy that nothing will be announced unless it can be shown that someone else will win because of what you&#039;re doing. How much happier we would be if instead of crippling each other with fear, we competed to empower each others&#039; creativity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#039;ve been following that ideal ever since, people seem to misinterpret it for subservience or weakness, or a pretense to cover another kind of greed, when it&#039;s really sincere, and all about strength.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people say yes, and when that happens magical things happen. I swear to god. I&#039;ve been there. I&#039;ve done it, it&#039;s not something you can do on your own, by definition. It&#039;s rare when people actually help each other and thereby create something. It&#039;s why the Beatles are such a great story. Someday I still hope to be part of a group like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it&#039;s still <em>totally<\/em> everyone for themself. Our world is breaking. Read the news. But I believe if we did start really collaborating and not just talking about it, things would change very very quickly. Things would happen that can&#039;t happen until we work together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I had it figured out in 1996, but still haven&#039;t figured out how to make it happen, and time <em>is<\/em> running out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a piece in October 1996 after attending a conference of the tech industry that as it turns out was in its final stages. This was one of the last times it met. 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