One of the arguments I have heard numerous times is that creativity or art flourishes when it is basking in a pool of total freedom. I quite often have found that a small set of limitations actually improves creativity. After all

necessity is the mother of invention.

I ended the last post with stating we are digital craftsmen. All of us who create something in the digital space, from designers to applications to hardware engineers, we all are digital craftsmen. We also need to protect that state. Just like in the years of yore the craftsmen could not be hurried or pressured into making things faster. Whatever was being made was created at the rate it needed to be created at. Definitely this should be put back into place and enforced by us digital craftsmen.

Over the course of years I have met my fair share of professionals with all kinds of job titles. To the cute and cuddly chief happiness officer to the outright weird evangelist of something. Then there are titles that get created and sold to you with the premise that you need them. I am looking at you growth hackers.

According to my experience I find that there are two simplified environments where people can work in. You will thrive in either one, but never* in both. This means you can ask this as a question when starting to work at a new place whether or not they will provide an environment where you will thrive in. The first environment I will describe by what the employees will need to do in order to thrive here.