![[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VII: The Spirit of Transformation](https://3lightsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Werner-Erhard-Spirit-of-Transformation-Austin-Hill-Shaw-Creativity-Expert.jpg)
by lightsd3dev | Apr 21, 2018 | design + innovation
To have a landscape peppered with snake-like rocks, as occurs in the Bay Area, is not insignificant for creativity and innovation. In every creative act, something is always transformed into something else. When you begin to adapt creativity as a way of living, you...
![[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VI: Play!](https://3lightsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CBAI-Play.jpeg)
by lightsd3dev | Apr 21, 2018 | design + innovation
One of the most undervalued aspects of creativity and innovation is the aspect of play. Though children do it naturally, we adults tend to neglect its value, often falling into the trap of relentless, unceasing productivity. Ground zero for play grounds Recently, I...
![[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part V: The Spirit of Cooperation Fueling Innovation](https://3lightsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Apple-Computers-Austin-Hill-Shaw-Creativity-Expert.jpg)
by lightsd3dev | Apr 21, 2018 | design + innovation
…it’s no accident that high tech arose in the Bay Area and not in the more established intellectual hotspots of the East Coast. Whereas East Coast companies such as IBM and Xerox were both secretive and insular, not wanting the secrets behind their advances to...
![[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part IV: The Grinding Geology](https://3lightsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bay-Area-Geology-Austin-Hill-Shaw-Creativity-Expert.jpg)
by lightsd3dev | Apr 21, 2018 | design + innovation
Since creativity and destruction are two sides of the same coin (in order to create anything, something must be destroyed, morphed, or transformed), those who get to feel the occasional shrugs of the earth, as Bay Area inhabitants bear witness, also gain valued,...
![[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part III: The Weather Factor](https://3lightsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Bay-Area-Weather-Factor.jpeg)
by lightsd3dev | Apr 21, 2018 | design + innovation
If you are able to sit down at a restaurant with your friends and loved ones, order seasonal foods reverently prepared and sip, perhaps, a few lovely, mind-lubricating wines, if you are able to do all that, you may be unable to control yourself; you may be absolutely...
![[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part II: The Great Cultural Mashup](https://3lightsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Great-Cultural-Mashup-Austin-Hill-Shaw-Creativity-Expert.jpg)
by lightsd3dev | Apr 21, 2018 | design + innovation
The Bay Area sits at the westernmost edge of Western culture and the easternmost edge of Eastern culture, setting up a cultural edge condition that fosters creativity and innovation. Culture and Creativity Last time in the “Creativity and Bay Area...
