Massimo Curatella
maxcuratella.bsky.social
Massimo Curatella
@maxcuratella.bsky.social
Creating habits to create.
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I am interested in how creativity and technology can make life better.
The attached video by @blakeprof.bsky.social, fascinating, explains in a non-technical, visual and animated way what emergent complexity is and how we can harness it.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqU...
Emergent Complexity
YouTube video by Emergent Garden
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I used to do these explorations (once upon a time): instead of drawing by hand, I would write the code that drew for me. It was a beautiful period that I never stop thinking about daily.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A generative, algorithmic vision of creativity can be an important tool for confronting the complexity of modern times.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
But it's only by abandoning fine control and equipping ourselves with generous reserves of patience that we can guide an experimental exploratory process to reveal new, useful solutions that are unimaginable through more linear and traditional paths.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Curation—the ability to observe, filter, and combine an enormous quantity of possible solutions—opens the door to generative creativity, to unexpected solutions, to astonishing surprise.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In a world that changes even as we try to understand it, we can equip ourselves with methods and tools powered by the same principles as nature: the interaction of infinite elementary components that generate an abundance of opportunities.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Yet an irresolvable tension remains: creativity requires absolute solitude, but writing, by definition, implies a reader.
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Antidotes exist. Intentional solitude. Music that masks the world. Writing for thirty minutes without being able to correct. Or the rare company of those who don't make us feel observed. Protecting spaces where the inner judge has no access is not a luxury: it's thought maintenance.
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
At that point thought changes nature: instead of being born, it begins to defend itself.

Social awareness is inevitable—we live immersed in others. But when it becomes interior surveillance, the flow turns to stone.
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
When the question "what will they think?" appears, the party ends. Self-censorship enters the scene like a Shakespearean character who talks too much. It models the social world inside our heads, simulates judgments, anticipates criticism.
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The value lies in the purity of the flow. A mind that moves without constraints is more honest, more curious, more capable of composing connections that would otherwise evaporate.

But the fundamental condition remains the same: no one must be watching.
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
In journals, in private notes, on the phone's keyboard: we can say everything. Desires, obsessions, awkwardness. Here consciousness stops asking for permission.
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
How much of the change is real transformation, and how much is only ceremony of renewal?
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Every writing tool suggests a certain kind of thinking, a length, a tone, a rhythm. A handle invites pulling. A button asks to be pressed. In the same way, a space for writing proposes a form to thoughts. These are not just technical limits. They are cognitive architectures.
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I could be interested. Can you send me a link to a digital copy of the paper?
December 4, 2024 at 11:52 AM