Nice post, Ivan Cash. Continuing the topic, I just read this article about Van Gogh and lots of overlap and interesting ideas in a different context– thought you’d appreciate it.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/02/van-gogh-fear-risk/
He says, “If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie… That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity.”
Keep writing, man.