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What if instead, your co-inhabitants were musicians, sculptors, writers, scientists, designers, mathematicians, philosophers, economists, architects, dancers, and so on, connected by their abundant creativity, passion, intellect, and curiosity?

PS: nice architecture. PUMA also did some cool stuff with shipping containers a few years ago. http://inhabitat.com/prefab-friday-puma-city-container-archi...

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Musicians, sculptors, writers, philosophers, economists, architects, and dancers have nothing special to contribute to companies like Parse, Heroku, or Dropbox to name a few.

What is a dancer going to tell me about running my startup? The whole point of startups moving to SF is so that they can be around other startups.

I've learned a lot from ballet. I appreciate the coordination and the discipline. Making something simple is very difficult.

    - Jack Dorsey

Art, science and invention are closely related. As Albert Einstein said, "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well", but you could probably throw inventors in there too. Samuel Morse was a painter before he invented the telegraph. So was Robert Fulton, before he created the first viable steamship.

Creativity is something that should be valued, regardless of whether it's expressed in code or in movement.

I think the concept of having other creatives nearby is an interesting one, but there are unique experiences that early startup founders face and having a peer group of others solving the same problems is more helpful, imho.

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