weekly Go Flip Yourself

• the act of handwriting is powerful

• mental model of your thoughts in space

• notebooks as the first sociel media (Netherlands back in 1600s)

Every writer who chooses to write in English as opposed to their mother tongue, every filmmaker who leaves their country for Hollywood, every founder who creates a business in the US instead of their own country, may be making an excellent decision from an individual point of view. They are likely to gain more personal influence that way. But they’re also increasing the influence of globalized American culture more than they are helping their own home culture.

• a willingness to speak the truth = the intent of this discussion is to discover the truth together

• a directional document that you can rely on (not to run in circles)

• self transcendance (latest right before Maslow died) -- it's all about love & relationship

This little encounter between three disparate people, who would never meet otherwise, explains the uniqueness of the Bay Area.

The serendipity is what makes my now hometown so special. In San Francisco, technologies, new ideas, and people collide randomly in the oddest of places, at the oddest of times.