The Passion Of Creation

As you see in the “about me” of the website I have “a passion is to help creative people, be it for example software engineers or designers, succeed.”


When we are young, our energy is raw and our passion seems limitless. As we grow older and “more professional” we become more conscious of the creative energy within us. If our job has creative parts to it, we need to find a way how to tap into this energy at the blink of an eye and create “results.” Our profession demands it.

This, in fact, is already hard to do so for yourself, day by day, and achieve excellent results. It is even harder to do so in teams. I remember, back in 2008, being inspired by a presentation by Adaptive Path on the Management of a Creative Environment. Some of the lessons in here - like cross-train the entire team - is something I have been implementing ever since in my teams.

But back to the inspiration to this post. A couple of minutes ago I heard that Lamb will be coming to town for a concert. I bought tickets within the next 10 minutes. In moments like this I wish I had the eloquence of a John Peel to express my feelings about some of the music out there.

Lou Rhodes, the singer, is the only public figure I had ever a crush on. Back in 1999, in my days as a wannabe music journalist, I set up an interview with her. Midway through, as I even did not pretend to hide my blushing anymore and clearly everyone in the room was seeing we were waaaayyyy off topic, she changed the topic of the interview herself. She started to talk about her feelings, her passion for creating music and how this is a source of energy she needs every day. An epic day in my life.

Anyways, happy to see her again on stage. If you haven’t ever listened to it when you were young in the 90s, the Re-Birth of the Cool series is just awesome. Back in high school in Swaziland (96-98) this was one of the albums I heard most frequently with my buddies.