Creative Mind has it’s own seduction. Everybody wants to tame it for his or her own vehicle.
This is a strange thought, but that’s what one feels in the creative endevour while working in a system. While the system is enabling the net needed to launch the endevour in the first place, but when it comes to people it is about control and responsibility. So the idea instead of being a celebration of working together in a team to see the impact, instead turns into the dynamics of who is incharge and who gets the credit.
The creativity is a strange and curious engagement, solo genius is the world desires but in computer software and hardware development the collaborative nature of skills brings out the idea to a shape where it can be developed and delivered. A thing of beauty!
But the system also opens up opportunities for people to exercise and tune the collaborative process to individual agenda. It may then lead the to idea traveling around in wilderness, and the creativity mind becomes the means to act as a canon. Yes a canon for shooting, not In a literal sense but to further the agenda.
I always felt somewhere this paradox and desire to not seek positions since all of them come with the expectation of becoming another shell in the armour. At the end with creative and intellect one tends to create ones moral universe (Woody Allen wrote in Bullets over Broadway) and that’s the conflict in seeking the satisfaction to create what is right for ones taste or doing what is right for growing up in the system.
I like to choose to be right in my moral universe of taste, but practical responsibilities enfore the reality of a reconciliation. It takes one through troughs of depression when becoming a pawn to excilileration of being able to create simple solutions to complex problems. To some degree that conflict is about being emotion or being rational about how one choose to love, but that’s an another post for another day.
Think about it…