It was fun. Shades of summers sitting around as a kid just clipping pictures and talking, sharing ideas, and pondering the possibilities of enjoying loving our goals despite their apparent distance from us at the moment. A long-distance relationship!

Would definitely encourage everyone to come, dress casual, and be ready to laugh. John

On Point Nine, be really, really, smart.

Is that too high a bar? In his book Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky found interesting research that good ideas need not come from deep within. That managers who knew a wide range of people in different departments and different fields imported concepts from other areas and applied them in a new context.

So, for example, I would definitely slow down to digest something written as a short poem, haiku, limerick or just a couplet.

A reader wants to speed through what the write wants them to read through

*Alternatively, can you suggest something that can be a kernel for others to add to? *

There one wrote a writer to Biznik ...

* John Perkins, Keep the Change, Solution-Focused Consulting *