A few years down the road, many of his ideas became industry best practices. It serves as a vital reminder that it is the outsiders, the rule-breakers, who possess the kind of disruptive intelligence that cultures have always relied on to catalyze reinvention and renewal. On the other hand, weirdly, I believe having gatekeepers is a positive. Constraints and obstacles are as necessary for the mischief-maker to produce great work as it is for a poet to create a great poem. The most creative ideas are often triggered by restriction and scarcity.
