David Reich had a great idea to take the Age of conversation to the next level.
In his own words: “Well I thought I had an idea to get spur more talk about The Age of Conversation 2, by writing about random essays in the book and asking those authors to, in turn, pick a page at random, write about it and then tag that author to do the same.”
So I opened the book to page 112 – The fear thing by Lois Kelly. Funnily enough I am mentioning the ‘Fear of the new’ in my essay.
I really liked Lois contribution, it starts with an analogy: ‘an idea cemetery’. Who is to blame for all those great ideas that ‘never seen the light of the day’? Her answer to this simple question is very sharp: we are the one to be blame for all the great ideas that died. If you think about it, the excuse of having conservative clients, colleagues isn’t a valid one. It is down to every single person to make a difference and fight for an idea that is worth it. As Gandhi once said: “Be the change you wish to see in the world”.
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Thanks for playing along with the meme and for pointing us to Lois Kelly’s essay in Age of Conversation 2.
I see she’s already selected at random the essay by Ernie Mosteller. And so it goes on…
I think fear plays a significant role in web 2.0, don’t you? Lots of people who know they should wade into the water but don’t. Or they sort of wade in but cling to their corporate speak behaviors.
I wonder if the recession will deepen the fears or by necessity — release some of them?
Interesting….
Drew
Hi Drew, you are perfectly right fear either makes people do nothing or worst do something in a disconnected manner. Let’s hope that the recession will enable some people to try braver things.
I think 80% of risk taking during this economy will relate to personal debt levels. The less debt you have, the greater the risks you’re willing to take. The greater the debt, the fewer the risks.
5% of us are natural born risk takers, and 15% are perennial fraidy cats.
Lois