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Lost & Found: The Power of Community
Oct 10th
- Sunset the night of the burn during Burning Man 2012 )’(
It finally made it back to me.
Four weeks had passed since it was dropped into the alkaline dust of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, aka the Playa.
Holding it in my hand once again, feelings of astonishment and belief mixed around in my head; then a grin, almost a smirk stuck on my face.
Community. Karma. The Universe. Whatever you call it, once again proved its existence as it has done over and over again at Burning Man during my seven trips home to that magical place. It is one of the most amazing parts of the annual gathering. Even with 54,000 this year, it held true. #beautiful
So when I lost my camera the final night, just a couple hours before the man burned, that’s what I told myself: It has to come back to you. I just needed to believe it would. Things literally manifest themselves there when you need them. It happens so frequently and so consistently; it’s impossible to deny its existence.
Though, one of the greatest lessons I’ve taken from the unforgiving elements of the Playa is to let things go. And at that moment when I realized I had dropped the camera, I had to come to peace that I’d lost all the photos I’d shot during the week and to now just have fun. Quite painful, since I had purchased a new camera specifically to take night shots of the spectacular, light show rollercoaster that is a night at Burning Man.
But they were all gone. Even as we made the trek back to San Francisco, I said how hard it was to let go. I just had to believe there was a chance someone in the community would find all these wonderful memories and try and get them back to the owner.
Of course.
Within a few days of returning, a kind soul from Washington DC had finally made it back to the default world and posted a photo on his camp’s Facebook page, Distrikt. Lost & Found 2011. Within hours someone had identified me and tagged the photo.
Lost & Found Facebook Post
It took another couple weeks until my camera made it back to SF and into my hands, until the kind soul returned for a visit to the city (just before leaving for his sixth tour in Iraq). #hero
Thank you Paul, Josh, Benjamin, Brian, Ferd, Derek and everyone who carries the community of Burning Man with them. You made this possible.
The man burns in 327 days )’(
- Inside Another Door Project. Looking Hopeful.
The Wisdom of Authenticity and Leadership amidst the Social Data Revolution
Feb 26th
Wisdom 2.0 Conference Tech Panel: Consciousness in a Constantly Connected Life (from left to right): Wisdom 2 founder and panel moderator Soren Gordhamer, Zen Teacher Roshi Joan Halifax, Digg Founder Kevin Rose, Zynga Co-Founder Eric Schiermeyer, Twitter Strategic Advisor Chris Sacca, and Google VP Bradley Horowitz
“Somebody’s an asshole in real life, and they’re going to be an asshole online.
You can’t fake it.”
Chris Sacca, investor and Strategic Advisor for Twitter began his final words on a tech panel on Consciousness in a Constantly Connected Life at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference yesterday pondering that first statement posed to the panel.
With the backdrop of 2,000 years of computing on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif, Sacca explained, “The more these platforms are built and the more transparency and authenticity emerges, the more people fact check you and security check you and truth check you, either you’re so good at faking it, and you become that thing, or you’re just exposed.”
This evolution toward authenticity was echoed at SFNewTech’s Social Data Revolution panel two nights earlier in San Francisco.
SFNewTech - Social Data Revolution (from left to right): SimpleGeo's Joe Stump, Skout's Christian Wiklund, Presdo & LinkedIn Founder Eric Ly, Hummer Winblad's Lars Leckie, Wikinvest's Michael Sha, and former Amazon Chief Scientist Andreas Weigend
“You can no longer be a closet asshole and be a nice guy when you first meet people because if you are an asshole somebody’s going to take a picture of you spitting on the homeless guy,” Joe Stump Co-Founder of SimpleGEO and former Lead Architect at Digg said to the SFNewTech audience.
“I just read this last night: there was a txt from a student who said I held a professor’s hair back while she was puking, if she doesn’t give me an A on the exam, I’m going to be posting the pictures all over Facebook.
“We have to be our true selves. We can no longer have multiple versions of ourselves, and I think that’s going to be a drastic shift in human behavior over the next 5–10 years.
“You cannot hide who you really are, and I think that is scary for some people. You have to be who you are and accept that and move on.”
As a CEO, I’ve found it nearly impossible to have a separate business and personal persona. To effectively engage, motivate and collaborate with the team @mojointeractive, I believe connecting with them on Facebook, Yammer and Twitter all help us align our core values.
I’m a better leader, facilitator and collaborator when I understand what my colleagues value. When, for instance, someone posts about completing a half marathon on Facebook and then posts on Yammer of a milestone on a big company project that affects us all, there is a strengthening of empathy and trust, cornerstone emotions for accountability to each other.
A single persona of authenticity signals to those around me that my values are consistent across my life and if you like what you see, what can we collaborate on so we can build something great?
Between the balance of presence and mindfulness with the always now, instant feedback, data streaming social data revolution, the questions being asked at these two conferences are some of the most fascinating being discussed on our connection with technology.
A powerful moment is taken when reflection on your authenticity and your relationship with technology is considered.
