Today you get 3 semi-related snippets of thought:
First, I’ve attached my Culture Making book review for those who are interested.
Next, I’m reading a book called Crazy Love, and it alerted me to the following video, which I thought worth posting here.
(If the audio isn’t good on this one, try watching it here.)
And finally, a thought on horizons. In Culture Making, Crouch makes the argument that the cultural artifacts we create set the horizons of what is possible. For instance, the interstate highway system made some things possible that weren’t before (traveling across country in days), but it has made other things nearly impossible (traveling by horseback, or at least horse & buggy).
I found it interesting that in the first week of working here at Blacktop Creative, I felt more creative. Just being in this environment seemed to broaden the very narrow horizons of my creativity, inspiring me to write witty emails and arrange the coasters on the lunch room table in unique shapes & piles. Little things, for sure, but for a task-completion guru like myself, significant.
For me, this experience supported Crouch’s proposition. It’s not just what we believe or do that changes the world. It’s also what we create. The culture that has been intentionally developed here at Blacktop broadens the horizons of what is possible creatively. In previous work environments, I felt no such inspiration, and even working at home in our gorgeous loft didn’t bring that about to the same degree. But being in a place where humble, creative collaboration is the norm did.
So in case you haven’t picked up on this yet, we think creativity matters. 
