Creative Insights

This article introduces the first Rabbit Hole from The Other: a format designed to expand creative thinking through connected concepts. Across five “falls,” it explores how language shapes perception. Access is free via subscription to The Golden Nose, where new Rabbit Holes will be released regularly.

The Other is the new ByBa Library: a curated collection of conceptual pieces designed to expand creative thinking. Featuring two formats—Papers and Rabbit Holes—it offers unusual, high-value content for creative minds. All documents will be free, accessible through subscription to The Golden Nose. The library launches April 5th with its first titles.

The Culture of the Thumb reduces experience to reaction, consumption, and binary judgment. The issue is not digital technology, but excess passivity. ByBa proposes creativity as the balancing force: not prohibition, but expansion. Creating restores initiative, meaning, and freedom. It’s not about leaving the phone, but reclaiming the whole hand.

Lantern is the new ByBa Observatory of Creativity, Curiosity and Culture. It listens to global conversations about creativity and cultural change, transforming social signals into insights and research reports. By observing how ideas circulate in society, Lantern aims to illuminate emerging patterns and questions shaping creativity today. Access to its reports will soon be available through The Golden Nose.

Universe 25 was an experiment with mice that revealed how societies can collapse without scarcity, purely through social saturation. This article connects that collapse to human creativity: when symbolic margins disappear, action loses meaning and creativity fades. A cultural warning for societies overloaded with stimuli, expectations, and constant relational density.