Web Innovators Group
Last night, a friend from the day job and I went down to Cambridge to attend the Web Innovator’s Group meeting. It was at the Royal Sonesta hotel, put on by a venture firm. It was truly vibrant to see so many talented, hungry people in one room, excited about their future aspirations, and nervous to pitch their ideas in a room full of investors, technologists, and some of the nicest-but-harshest critics I’ve ever seen. Bubble popping was quite the norm, but it was okay, because it was something those new company boys and girls were going to hear shortly anyhow in the “real” world, right?
I enjoyed getting to talk about PodCamp Boston, and I got to talk a bit about Grasshopper New Media. Folks liked the idea in theory, but I can see that I’ve got lots more refining to do.
It’s SO exciting to be around so many intelligent and passionate people, both in the online realm, but also out there in the wild.
Are you finding passionate people? Are you reaching out to the bright lights around you and online?
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Funny you should ask. Recently I had someone ask me about a “family motto.” I had to figure out three words that would represent my own values. “Beauty” was first, that was easy, followed by “grace”, since I come from a movement-based background. But the two together didn’t really seem enough…and it took me a while to hit on the third: “passion.” Things like “honesty” and “integrity” are, in my mind, already folded into those–you can’t be truly graceful without pure intent, etc. (which is purely my own opinion, but hey, it’s my motto!).
More than that, I’ve been watching your projects unfold (even mention them in the restored satorimedia.typepad.com post) and it strikes me that you and the other lifehackers are sort of living a dance, trying to make life more graceful through tricks and tips and time-management (which is really all that dance is–moving purposefully, rather than randomly, over time). Gotta say, you pull it off well.
Starting to…:)