• Instead of controlling people, show clear values and a high bar so they voluntarily produce stronger work. Unexpected innovation appears when you provide an open platform.
  • Control or freedom?
    • Raising the floor ultimately requires control, while removing the ceiling requires freedom.
    • Would the ideal be to raise the floor with templates, lint rules, and AI while leaving the ceiling open?
  • “AI has lowered the floor, but it has not raised the ceiling. Designers, creatives, builders: You will raise the ceiling.”
    • Dylan Field's words seem to run through all of Config 2026. Notion talks about design linting to raise the floor, while this talk argues for freedom and experimentation to raise the ceiling.