Flying Shortbread

I'd like to call you sometime I'd like you to need me one time What would you do if you knew the truth? Oh what would you do if I told you the story of my life? Would you find me overly familiar towards you? Would you call me crude, fling me aside to the birds? What do I do with all these feelings warming me up inside? What do I do with all these precious hours dreaming of you and I? Would you recognize it's a need I've been fighting for so long? Would you recognize it's a hunger only you can fill? I'd like to call you sometime Oh I would like to call you I'd like to call you sometime I'd like you to need me one time

My father resigned from his men-only business club because he didn't want to belong to a club that would welcome his son one day, but not his daughter My mom started the longest running feminist film festival in the US I claimed the feminist label because a feminist delivered a lecture in fishnet stockings - acknowledging that beauty is relevant Feministing the most widely read feminist text ever Feministing has political clout You should never judge women who fail to reach their really lofty goals Feminists are working in really difficult environments and their own measure of success is 'daily acts of caring' ACT in the face of overwhelm

strength untamable agility Christ tamed by a virgin (Mary) can only be mounted by virgins will sleep in a virgin's lap, makes it vulnerable to hunters (like, what's she doing... leading it to slaughter, get off your arse woman! Woman are so passive in old texts... %$%$#%$#^#) chaste love faithful marriage neutralize poison shown in heraldry with broken collar, that it has been taken, but will not be again

Bosses who think that social networking keeps people from their work are wrong This isn't China. Facebook is the modern smoke-break Bosses are afraid that if they can't see their employees working at home are wrong M&Ms interrupt - managers interrupt, meetings interrupt You can Quit Skype, Quit Facebook, Quit Twitter - you can't Quit your manager At home you can take a walk later, record the program you want to watch later, or work later. How about no talk Thursday afternoons. Silence in the office. Work will be done. How about managers leaving people to get some work done.

A leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed He has to be doing something easy Then someone will join him The first follower transforms the leader from a lone nut into a leader The first follower is also a leader, it takes guts to be the first follower Will show the others how to follow The leader embraces the follower Nurture your followers if you are the first leader The next followers emulate the follower not the leader Three is a crowd and a crowd is news, the third one starts the tipping point As more people join in it's less risky Those that join in quickly will be part of the in-crowd Those that are too slow will be ridiculed because they don't recognise the leader Leadership is overglorified The first follower is the real leader Have the courage to follow, have the courage to be the first one to follow the lone nut

The water wasn't safe, so the English used drink beer By 1650 they had started drinking tea and coffee and since before they were drunk, the Enlightenment started when tea and coffee spread.  From pub to coffeehouse The architecture of the space allowed ideas to have sex Been studying what environments breed ideas, patterns Chaotic environments Important ideas have long incubation periods, they fade into view Building barricades around ideas - copyright, patenting - which stifles many of them Noodling around, hacking Chance favors the connected mind - ideas that pop into your head by chance because people suggest reasons and uses for your ideas, stimulating your imagination

Martin Luther King - I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be Mother Theresa - The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of the family to small We give too much voice to the most divisive amongst us Book titles reflect this - Pinheads and patriots; Arguing with idiots Negative otherizing morphs into violent extremism Counteracting otherizing A strategy: Take the other to lunch Agree on some ground rules - ahead of time Be conversational, don't persuade, interrupt, be curious, listen, be real, don't try to change the other side, acknowledge that it's a first step What issues concern you, what have you always wanted to ask someone from the other side Two people dropping the pretence of being know it alls Two people practicing ubuntu

Data deluge, complexity - experts can process the info better and can come to better conclusions than we can We give them parental-like authority Big problem Experts divide themselves into rigid camps, worshiping their own gurus, eschewing dissent We have to take them on and persist in the face of their annoyance We have to ask questions about their methodologies Google CEO actively looks for the arms-crossed disassociated person in the room Democratized expertise - shop girls get a say with the forecasting team for the company Best Buy introduced a gambling chip - employees could bet on stuff and they discovered important flaws in projects