Does creativity call for heresy?

https://gonzalonunez.substack.com/p/on-heterodoxy?r=1n1ta&utm_medium=web

A fun note about Leonardo da Vinci:

He was a recalcitrant heretic. An unabashedly gay bastard born in 1452 to an orphaned and impoverished sixteen-year-old local peasant girl, he was marked with the seal of heterodoxy since the very moment of his birth.

Leonardo’s unorthodoxy very clearly influenced his work. (Read the essay for some of my favorite examples)

Michelangelo hated him and through his life he vindicates Nietzsche. Without heterodoxy, there is no Renaissance.

All rules are arbitrary. Now, go do with that what you wish.

Meta-comment: it is very annoying how Twitter nukes tweets with links in them. A network that is actually aligned with its users would never do this lmao.

I would love to hear @dwr.eth’s perspective as someone who’s building a social network.