Everything’s the same, they say

Every time I hear the “novelty and creativity is rare” line I get so angry I have to stand up and pace to calm down.

lol.

novelty and creativity is not rare; it’s unfunded.

Every person ... has ideas that they’d like to do, but avoid because nobody has the resources to take a risk on something unprecedented.

Insert line here about how a data-driven mindset encourages the suppression of novelty, because there can be no data for the novel.

The issue is that novelty, by definition, doesn’t have a track record, which means that you can’t predict how it’ll go, but given the nature of the economy we live in, odds are that it will not make enough money to pay for itself.

Novelty isn’t rare. The money you need to support its exploration is.

Making genuine novelty is all too often career suicide. We could have so much more, so much more variety and diversity, if we weren’t so utterly dominated by an economic system that values homogeneity and marketability over all.