"Free thinking, freeform, free of the constraints that hold down every other architect of record."
Good advice, JC, many even great advice - and advice we could all use, whatever our profession.
The challenge though: few of us are actually able (let alone willing) to step outside the prevailing spirit of our age, the dominant belief systems and scorecards by which we measure success or failure.
(As in my lighthearted but honest answer to Frank M's question, I do believe that few escape the underlying ethos and value system of the times they happen to live in).
*That's* the hard work, the interior work, the work of *character* not of craft.
If Zac - or anyone - can do that part of it, the rest will take care of itself pretty easily.
But how many ambitious people in a thousand are ready to risk stepping outside the safety and security of the already-proven, of the way things are already being done?
I think it's only the very brave or the very foolish or the very desperate who try -- and I don't think Zac is any of those (thankfully).