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But today, you don’t have to live in California, Manhattan or Paris to find your people. You don’t even have to live in the same town or street of your people.
Look at Austin Kleon , Lisa Congdon, Wendy MacNaughton, Maria Popova , Oliver Jeffers, Amanda Palmer … Tim Ferriss , Ryan Holiday , Chase Jarvis
... See moreScenius is The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford, where C.S Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien frequented and birthed three of the five best-selling fantasy novels of all time: The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings; it’s The Bloomsbury Group, a loose collective of friends who met in England in the early 20th century such as Virginia Wo
... See moreThere is one common factor between all these names, whether from the 70s or today, whether punk poets, philosophers, filmmakers, writers or marketing strategists: they are makers .
They are deeply connected to their creative muscle, they produce on a regular if not daily basis, they test, they fail, they take risks, they explore, THEY CR
... See morePacky identified eight ingredients that, when combined, have a high chance of producing a scenius. A few of the best are place based ritual, non-zero-sum competition, and network effects of success.
Just as the Renaissance had le botteghe , scenius more broadly requires a home. As it turns out, a surprising amount of innovation happens in bars.
In 1997, historian David Banks argued in “The Problem of Excess Genius” that, “The most important question we can ask of historians is ‘Why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest?’"
To understand how historical ingredients apply to today’s communities and micro-scenia, I sought out potential emergent scenia from the present day.
I found them in theInterIntellectandWrite of Passage. Both Anna Gát’s InterIntellect and David Perell’s Write of Passage are transitioning from communities to micro-scenia, and each has the
... See moreBrian Eno (musician and producer) calls this a “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.”