Future Salon

Reminder: Tomorrow Friday 6pm: The Future of the Future Salon

Hi Futurists,

Just a little reminder regarding the Future of the Future Salon gathering tomorrow at SAP Labs 3410 Hillview Avenue. Room is upstairs at Northstar. Pizza My Heart on University right after. If the front door is closed, please call me on my cell: +1 415 3296 and I will come down to let you in.

As a prep I would like to share a couple of lines that really made my day from Nilofer an amazing sharp and warm women who once presented her book The New How at the Future Salon.

She replied and cced this group, but somehow it never made it through:

From: nilofer merchant
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:17:28 +0200
To: Mark Finnern SAP
Cc: "bafuture@yahoogroups.com" <bafuture@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [bafuture] The Future of the Future Salon

Mark,

Can I just take a moment to thank you for the creativity, and thoughtfulness you have put into forming and ultimately shaping a community like this one. Of course, you have used this gift for your core living but it has been a gift well shared for and with all of us during the last few years. Community happens when you create a safe place for people to leave behind their titles, ranks, burdens and come together to think anew, imagine differently and be shaped by one another. I was only sorry that my family commitments and such kept me from spending more time with this group.

Many thanks,
#grateful.

Nilofer

Wow, these lines really warmed my heart. If you want to be part of this heartwarmingadventure and help out Aslan with the organization of future Future Salons, please join us tomorrow, when the official hand-over will happen and you will have the chance to rejuvenate the format and implement your own ideas.

See you there, Mark.

P.S. Why Savannah? Because my wife is not feeling well and she has family there.

More details in my previous post.

The Future of the Future Salon

Stephen Covey in his excellent book First Things First says the essence of the human life is: To live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy.

I am in the middle of moving to Savannah Georgia, but nothing would make me happier than to leave a living legacy of the Bay Area Future Salon to continue.  Well, not only legacy, but also the benefit of being able to participate in these interesting events remotely via our webcast.

If you have enjoyed the Future Salon over the years and want it to continue, or just want to say good by, please join me and Aslan Noghre-kar this Friday the 27^th of May at 6pm PST at SAP Labs 3410 Hillview Avenue. [map]

Goal is to build teams around themes that we would like to cover in a Future Salon, split up the upcoming month, ideally into 2012, the year when the world will end anyhow ;-)

The Future Salon’s tag line is: Boldly creating a world that works for all.  Let’s continue that quest. Hope to see you there.

In good old tradition we will go to Pizza my Heart on University right afterwards for the interesting conversations until late in the night. If you can’t come to the get together at SAP Labs, try to join us at the Heart. Really would love to see all of you before I am taking off.