Future Salon

Mini Salon, this Friday

I happen to be back in the area this week, and am heartbroken that Mark hasn't planned a fabulous Future Salon for this Friday. But rather than just grumble, I'm taking the initiative and inviting all of you to a "Mini Salon", as we've had a couple times before: no speaker, no predetermined topic, and no free drinks (sorry!), but the same opportunity for discussion of the future with fellow Future Saloners. I'll be announcing a location shortly, either in San Francisco or in Berkeley. In the meantime, just pencil it in to your calendar if you haven't yet made other plans, and I'll hope to see at least a few of you there.

Update: the details:

Friday, July 21, 7pm.
Au Coquelet Café, 2000 University Ave. (at Milvia), Berkeley, CA 94704

It's just a block West of the Downtown Berkeley BART station, and tomorrow is a Spare the Air day, so you can ride BART for free all day.

NYLF: Good to Know Blog

I will present again at the National Youth Leadership Forum for Technology in San Jose in a bit over a week.

I thought about what my theme should be and I came up with:
Come alive! derived from the following Harold Whitman quote:

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.' (Howard Thurman not Harold Whitman)

Love that.

I am using a blog to record things that are good to know when growing up. In the interactive part of the session I let everyone sign up for the blog and let them post. It's going to be interesting, probably they all have MySpace accounts and will show me a thing or two :-)

Please post suggestions and ideas that help young and old to come alive as comments.

Update: Andrew wrote me:

Although I'm not absolutely sure who said that, I am quite confident there is no Harold Whitman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Thurman_Whitman Nice little net phenomenon. :-)

The Wikipedia entry says it was Howard Thurman. I corrected the quote.