Hanging out on Friday and Not Talking about the Election

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I'll get to that later.

Trevor, who knows everyone, introduced me to Ray Foote, a great guy despite his issues with wheat, of Big Foote Music. We went to Markt for some beers, or scotch, and salmon salads. It was great to spend an afternoon NOT talking about Palin's wardrobegate, the President-elect, or even Prop 8. There was no need to drag down the conversation with any of the topics.

Ray told me about Seth Godin, of whom he is a fan. While I used to not be into the gurus, I've realized it is dumb to not be diving in online to find those who are thinking and sharing ideas in which you agree, disagree, and debate. The desire to innovate is the new space race, and so much out there is investigating the why's and how's things can happen, as opposed to meditating on things that happened. This discussion is not happening in an exclusive way, as well. It is happening inclusively, opt-in-clusively (I may be the first person to use that term. Just did a quick google search, nothing on the first page. Nailed it). A couple things popped into my head through our discussion:

Thing One
Successful digital experiences are verified in an analog way. Ray saw Godin at a live event in NY a bit ago, where Godin spoke to a small limited crowd taking their questions individually. Pretty cool. What resounded with me is that what, for many of the attendees was probably an RSS-driven experience eventually became an in-person one. When building digital experiences, don't forget their analog impact, in-fact, verify them through it.

Thing Two
At Big Foote they can do big live audio sessions. Yeah, remember those? In the old days if you were recording and you needed the horn section a bit lower- you told 'em to back up. As quickly as we can communicate with each other, it is good to take the time, riff off each other, work together, and connect a bit.

That brings me back to the link above- analog and digital working together. Awesome.

by Connor Swegle 11.09.2008