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More About Me

I'm passionate about

changing the world, photography, food, ideas

An idea worth spreading

Stop judging and see what you see

Talk to me about

collaboration, how people have the power and responsibility to make their world

People don't know that I'm good at

cooking, caving,

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• A comment on Conversation: More Music in Schools?

  Mar 5 2011: Music should be made available for those that want it. Music can be many things.
  
  Motivator
  Enabler
  Meditation
  Sense of self.
  Communication
  Provoider of structure
  freedom
  to name a few.

• A comment on Conversation: Pepsi's TED talk: Progressive corporate transformation, or TEDwashing (like greenwashing for intellectuals)?

  Mar 5 2011: @Ahmet Exactly, the primary reason that I continue to work for a big company is that I can use the resources of that company to influence a multitude of things to a higher degree than would be possible as an individual. I work for BASF http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/en/sustainability/society/social-business
  
  I believe that we are pointed strongly in the right direction and have the possiblilty to use the technologies we invent to make a difference in the way that the world moves forward.
  
  Also, one perosnal goal is to have a TEDxBASF in 2012.
  
  Companies have the mass to move the homan species quickly!

• A comment on Conversation: Where are we all moving with Social Networking / Online Communities?

  Mar 5 2011: In a few years social will be part of the fabric of the relality we know. Riight now we have a better chance of determining what that will look like than we are likely to have in the future. (Notice this statement holds for whatever point of time you are currently in.)

• A comment on Conversation: Are we barbaric and savagely in our natural state?

  Mar 5 2011: Why judge? It limits.

• A comment on Conversation: Why is it that every time I ever see a talk rated as 'Obnoxious" that the speaker is always a woman?

  Mar 5 2011: You have a good point. I can't speak to the statistics of the whole thing but TED is all about presenting new ideas. Those who suspend judgement are those who will benefit most.
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  A comment on Conversation: How could we relate to the world around us without the concept of time?

  Mar 4 2011: Maybe if we just lived in the moment without the baggage of the past or the pressure of the future, the world would be a more authentic place. Note that I do not mean the memories experienced are not remembered or that we do not have a will to move us from place to place. I'm simply suggesting that past and future loose their control of our minds in the present moment. Total freedom?