Elsewhere

All of the following things, in my brain, are connected:

• The independent spirit and authenticity of entrepreneurship, as witnessed at South by Southwest
• The civic-mindedness and involvement inspired by Second Life (see Eric Rice’s blog for more on this)
• The concepts of free culture and intellectual property espoused by Lawrence Lessig
• Open Source software
• Creative Commons intellectual property licensing
• Social software and democratic media, ala blogs, del.icio.us, shadows.com, ad nauseum

It has long been my belief that we need new paradigms–social, spiritual, economic, and political–to deal with the demands of the information age without losing our humanity, and I think it’s starting to happen. A movement is coalescing, though still embryonic. These are exciting times.

I need to feel settled to be creative. To feel like I have the time and permission to work on frivolous things uninterrupted, instead of my brain cycling the thought “What else should I really be doing right now?” every 2 minutes.

Things are very unsettled right now. They have been for a long time.

Working on that. The way out is through.