A wonderful example of how much the West can learn from the innovative genius that exists outside our borders (in this case, from two Argentine creatives).
Search youTube for more videos or check out their website - FuerzaBruta.net. Or, if you're fortunate enough, go see them in New York.
Just don't miss the video below. This is ridiculous.
Take a look a this recent Vendorprisey post, if you haven't already.
Be sure to check out the "Machine is Us/ing Us" video. Very cool stuff.
First the clarification.
A lot of what I write is food for thought. I don't claim or particularly care to be the authority on any specific topic. But I do love to offer reflections, write about possibilities, and pose interesting questions. Hopefully I discover and share some insights in the process.
That said, a request.
Jason Corsello mentioned the story of Randy Paush in a recent post. Randy is a Carnegie Mellon Professor, a well-known personality in the field of Virtual Reality, and also young and dying of pancreatic cancer.
Though I'm not generally drawn to human interest pieces, I decided to check out Randy's "Final Lecture" on YouTube. After just a few minutes I was totally hooked. I ended up watching the full 90 minute lecture.
One of Randy's lessons learned was to get a feedback loop and listen to it.
He tells the following story about a football coach he once had…
"There was one practice where he just rode me all practice. You're doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong, go back and do it again, you owe me, you're doing push-ups after practice. And when it was all over, one of the other assistant coaches came over and said, yeah, Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he? I said, yeah. He said, that's a good thing. He said, when you're screwing up and nobody's saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up. And that's a lesson that stuck with me my whole life. Is that when you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care."
It's great advice and a reminder to me to ask you for your feedback
If you read my blog and have an objection, a thought to add, or want to offer a clarification of your own, please do!
Send me an email or write a comment.
I want to hear and learn from you, I promise to listen, and I'll try to make it as easy as possible for you to share.
Whenever one starts a new venture like this, whether it's initiating a blog, signing up for Facebook, or getting LinkedIn, the issue of a bio always comes up. By now you would think I'd have some stock text saved in Word that I could simply copy/paste into that obnoxious field, but I don't. Perhaps because I've never written a bio that I've been satisfied with.
The whole process wreaks of self-definition, and that's why I can't stand it. Where does one start? And what aspects of life and what milestones does one focus on when the field is limited to 2000 characters!?
They say (and I've heard) born-again Christians talk about their lives in terms of a distinct "before" and "after," with the ''before" being the darkness and tumult that existed pre-Jesus and the "after" consisting of the joy and wonder they've experienced since. I have no desire to be saved, but having that kind of focal point must make bio-writing a bit easier. I would think about using, say, puberty to mark a similar turning point in my life, but modern science tells me I'm still going through it, so I guess I'll have to wait.
Anyway, the lesson here is that if you think my bio is lame, don't worry - so do I.
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