In my completely unscientific fashion I’ve found that in my experience an unusual number of people engaged in the business of making software have many creative endeavors and dreams outside software. Lots and lots of musicians. Lots of photographers. And lots of people who will secretly tell you (once they get to know you) that someday they’d really like to make a movie.

Since I’m already off the scientific path, I’ll offer a hypothesis for this phenomenon. The creation of software is a fundamentally creative enterprise. In addition to intelligence, and thoughtfulness it takes imagination. So it should be no surprise that the people attracted to making it are a generally creative bunch. But why do some still want to make movies? I would imagine it’s because movies still capture the imagination in a way that’s unique to the medium.

But recently I’ve had a change of heart. It’s not that I know longer think it would be fun to make a movie. It’s just that I realized that making software is the modern medium for creativity. Books, music, tv, movies, painting, sculpture and all the rest are still as great as they always have been. But software is new and still forming. We have just scratched the surface of what software is capable of. Software is a canvas with incredible possibility. I believe software can tell a story. And coolest of all, software makes just about every other form of self-expression… better. It’s software that will make it possible for me to make a movie. And I feel fortunate that I get to make software at this moment in time. When the world of software is filled with possibility.