Ben Casnocha asks: "I wonder if there’s a connection between the number of residents who "do nothing" and the overall creativity level of a city?" and sends along the link to this story.
Who are these people?
At any given hour on any given workday, well, it turns out it’s not a
workday at all. Not for these hordes roaming free, anyway. By rights
our parks and movie theaters and stores should be minor ghost towns
between 9 and 5 — chanced upon by the occasional tourist or late-night
bartender but otherwise peaceful. Instead, they’re inexplicably packed.
I didn’t doubt that the packers had sound explanations. I just wanted
to hear them.It occurred to me last night that you can learn as much about a city from what its people don’t do as you can from what they do do. So I drove to as many parts of San Francisco as I could and interrupted as much leisure as possible to find out.
I often walk the streets of DC, NY and other places and wonder the same thing. You?
