"How to be a Renacentist Man"

1. Steal from the best: like Brunelleschi reverse-engineering ancient Roman architecture in order to build Florence's extraordinary cathedral dome - or like today's web designers hitting the "view source" button on Web pages).

2. Never say no: like Michelangelo accepting the challenge to paint the ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel despite his preference for sculpture and little experience in fresco painting.

3. Indulge: slack, leave early, do other stuff: one of the things in being a Renaissance man is actually not doing your job; in order to create great art, to create great legacy you have to indulge your senses and passions" - example: Filippo Lippi, a XV century painter.

4. Complexity is good: let your different interests feed upon each other.

What's holding you back? We live in the most exciting possible time, can access every corner of the planet and every bit of information, have very powerful tools.  The secret is: consume more data, suck stuff in like sponges, have passion. The secret rule number 5 is: no matter what opportunities come to you, what interest, what encounter, what curiosity, say yes; grasp it, do it, yield to it, and create new things!

Ben Hammersley
Reboot8: How to be a Renaissance man, and help Google eat itself

About Renacentist Software

Renacentist Software is an independent subcontractor to several companies, and is specialized in adapting utilities and management software to Mac OS and iPhone OS. It also assumes artistic aspects of many different projects and is involved into web developments. Renacentist Software only publishes as own projects small freeware thingies or grown-up test concepts whose source code is later used in bigger tools with different functionality.