Scenius: building a culture with permission to innovate

Finding your scenius is not finding how to be a star, famous or rich. It’s about finding your people, the one that help you emulate, create and go beyond your pre-supposed limits.

Although many have tried many times, it is not really possible to command scenius into being... The best you can do is NOT KILL IT. When it pops up, don’t crush it. When it starts rolling, don’t formalize it. When it sparks, fan it. But don’t move the scenius to better quarters. Try to keep accountants and architects and police and do-gooders away

Csikszentmihalyi and Hall showed that it’s not enough to have brilliant artists, academies and schools, or funders, or a critical mass of other creative types, or even enthusiastic audiences. Rather, it is when all of these factors coalesce that creative work becomes much more likely to be truly exceptional. It’s the combination of these elements t

1. Mutual respect and appreciation.  The first and possibly most important condition of collaboration. When departments even appear to be in opposition, the conditions for scenius collapse quickly.


2. Rapid exchange of tools and techniques.  At the heart of the open-source software movement is Github, where cod