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Being a creative in the tech industry is such a curious place to be - because on the one hand, I know these platforms exist because of the creative process that is software engineering, and developed by creative PMs, devs, designers, people, and at one point, these platforms were supposed to exist..

to unlock and enable creativity and sharing creative work with others. But then, as Cam says, the platforms, and *especially* recommendation algorithms, are seemingly harming creativity more than anything. So the creativity the tech industry uses to develop and monetise the platforms are hurting..

the creativity of the users of those platforms, but also themselves, because obviously there are loads of us who are on both sides in this! I love enabling creativity in folks working in the tech industry, because software engineering can be such a creative and expressive craft, but I also like..

writing and creating and building things and expressing myself, but it hard to do that when the platforms for expressing yourself are just *massive* hurdles to overcome. It makes me sad to think that so much creativity in one place can harm so much creativity elsewhere... :'(