Flutterby™! : creativity and Monderman

Mark Hershberger has an entry worth reading: Why Create? and how to avoid the black hole of "productivity" which riffs on _why's recent twitter:

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

And while I'm just ripping off content from Mark, he also links to winterspeak riffing on a profile of traffic engineer Hans Monderman which noted:

They also found, in surveys, that residents, despite the measurable increase in safety, perceived the place to be more dangerous. This was music to Monderman’s ears. If they had not felt less secure, he said, he “would have changed it immediately.”

and

“When government takes over the responsibility from citizens, the citizens can’t develop their own values anymore,” he told me. “So when you want people to develop their own values in how to cope with social interactions between people, you have to give them freedom.”