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Creating Something in an Unexpected Environment: It's Just a Scramble
How a different setting changes how problems are approached.
This episode tells the story behind It's Just a Scramble—a song written in an unlikely setting, with people who had never written a song. We were a group of climbers, held up in a hotel by cold weather. No plan to write music. No expectation of creating. Just time, conversation, and a shift in environment.
What followed was a different creative process.
In this episode, I walk through:
How the song came together with no prior intention
What changes when you step into a problem you weren't planning to solve
How environment shapes…
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