TheThreePercent

Most folks have either read or heard about Richard Florida’s idea of the “creative class“.  Florida and others point to cities like Austin, Texas – where I lived for three years – as places where the creative class thrives.

This is just a short post to record a thought I had today while surfing the web, looking for good examples of other organizations that find and foster talent the way we plan to do with YET Lab.  I stumbled on a blog from a computer programmer that was also studying art and playing in a band that performs pop covers on Fridays, R&B on Saturdays, and Jazz on Thursdays.  Personal diversity.  I love it.

Then I found myself on Myspace, then YouTube, etc., etc.  And it struck me that not only are a lot of these people expressing themselves creatively in virtual media in a way that is instantly global – not tied to a place like Austin – but that they have interactive communities around them – people who really seem to know each other well – which are also global, virtual and part of the creative class in their own right.

 Seems to me the creative class has broken out.  For them, place is planetary.

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Totally unrelated:  Heard a great thing said by a German colleague this week.  “Some people are all nets with no knots.”