Long Now

I’ve been listening to tons of the Long Now presentations. They really great and dense presentations about thinking about things in terms of a long view over hundreds or millions of years.

One thing I really love is how they let the audience ask questions. The audience writes their questions down and hands them to the moderator to read. This seems to create a better conversation with the speaker and makes for more intelligent questions.

Too often in other talks, Google’s talks are a good example, people ask their questions aloud. Most people are not well spoken though and a great question in their head does not always come out as a great question.

Making people write the question down makes the think out their question and really seems to bring some great question to the surface.

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo starts today. 1667 words a day to a 50,000 word novel. I've always read that writing needs to be daily habit. So far all I've accomplished is a yearly habit of joining NaNoWriMo. Lets see if I can beat my record of 10,000 words.