Creative Good

A note before I start: We’re under two months from the Gel 2026 conference, our community gathering! Fri-Sat, Oct 2-3, in Accord, NY, two hours north of NYC.

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I’ve been online for a long time. I sent my first email in 1989 and have been through every boom, bust, trend, fad, and upheaval that has hit the internet ever since.

One thing has stayed the same throughout, a dependable rock-solid constant: people are overloaded by information, and they’re not sure what to do about it.

Of course the problem is worse today. Yea...

When I was young graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, I came across this quote from computer scientist Alan Kay:

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

That was a heady idea in the mid-1990s, a time when digital utopianism was on the rise. There was no need to stick to historical patterns: creativity and ingenuity could be our guides, helping us c...