creative maverick

Melissa Pierce is what I would call a Player. She is making a film called Life in Perpetual Beta about making life up as you go along - and she’s making it up as she goes along. She has no real experience of film making and I don’t think she knows exactly where the film is going.

And it’s already great.

She’s interviewing great people like Seth Godin (below) and Daniel Pink and Biz Stone (co-founder of twitter).

You can watch the film, which has been funded through individual donations canvassed on twitter, unfold on her blog.

Here’s how Melissa describes the project:

“Life in Perpetual Beta is a documentary film about the ways in which technology has/is/will change the ways in which we think about ourselves as individuals and a society. It is exploring the cultural shift that technology creates as it enables people to live less planned and more passionate lives.”

Watch Melissa being interviewed by one of her interviewees in very “Beta” style. It’s a great summary of the kind of approach I advocate in my book “Screw Work, Let’s Play”.