Seeking a "yes, and" space

Twenty-two years ago this month, I moved house.I’d been living in Edinburgh, an ancient city whose gothic architecture cuts into an expansive sky. Even the air felt apart from the rest of the country: there was a different sort of chill to it, and it carried a malt smell from the breweries on the edge of town. When the train doors opened at Waverley Station, I didn’t just know I was home; I felt it on my skin and in my bones.Edinburgh is famous for its support of the arts: the Festivals double the population of the city each summer. People fly in from all over the world to showcase their creativity and find new audiences. The city is alive.But I had to leave.I’d been working on Elgg, the open source social networking platform I co-founded. It was originally built as a reaction to the prevailing educational technology platforms, which seemed to have been built to satisfy compliance teams rather than to help anybody learn. People are already learning from each other on the web, was the…