On why nothing exists without collaboration

There’s a healthier way of thinking about creativity that the musician Brian Eno refers to as “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.” If you look back closely at history, many of the people who we t

Collaboration Nothing begins with us. The more we pay attention, the more we begin to realize that all the work we ever do is a collaboration.

Genius, he argues, tends to happen in community, not isolation.

creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.

creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.