Ideas fall into the gap

More ideas than you could ever write about, draw, mind map or explain.

I won’t add another “is it or isn’t it?” post about AI. I have no idea what’s going to happen to work and creativity, whether we’ll be driven slowly mad by hideous generated images, robot cleaners and zero opportunities.

What I do see is this: some people have always had more ideas than they could ever get out. Heads full of chaos. Projects started with a shot of passion and abandoned before they became anything. Unsortable piles of notes that never turned into the thing they were supposed to be.

Those voices have mostly gone unheard because the gap between thinking and finished work was too wide to cross alone.

That gap is what I’m interested in because I’ve fallen into the crevasse many times.

These are people who have been generating ideas for years with nowhere to put them. Non-linear thinkers. People who work across disciplines and don’t fit any single category. People whose output always exceeded their ability to finish and publish.

The creativity argument misses this entirely because the voices we hear are the ones who know how to find and build an audience under the old rules.

Image credit: “Party Inspecting a Crevasse” Archives New Zealand from New Zealand, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://lnkd.in/ePNTmY2>, via Wikimedia Commons