This maps cleanly to fitness functions tightening as systems mature. Convergence at the category level is exactly what you’d expect. Blue oceans close, red oceans form, and surface forms optimize for survival under shared pressures. The key variable is where that constraint lands.
Deep constraints usually sharpen meaning and experimentation, while constraints optimized for external legibility, scale, and platform distribution compress everything at the interface. What looks like cultural decline is often just a loss of visible fidelity caused by that surface level optimization, not an exhaustion of creative capacity.
Great piece. Reminds me of the arrow metaphor, a great pulling back effort before being shot into the distance. I am fully convinced of , there can never truly be a lack of creativity!
This maps cleanly to fitness functions tightening as systems mature. Convergence at the category level is exactly what you’d expect. Blue oceans close, red oceans form, and surface forms optimize for survival under shared pressures. The key variable is where that constraint lands.
Deep constraints usually sharpen meaning and experimentation, while constraints optimized for external legibility, scale, and platform distribution compress everything at the interface. What looks like cultural decline is often just a loss of visible fidelity caused by that surface level optimization, not an exhaustion of creative capacity.
Indeed. You describe it more eloquently than I did.
Great piece. Reminds me of the arrow metaphor, a great pulling back effort before being shot into the distance. I am fully convinced of , there can never truly be a lack of creativity!
Excellent piece and a welcome shot of optimism and hope. And I learnt a lot about systems theory!