Of Course The Flight To TEDActive Has Wifi

CAVEAT: ONE FINGERED TYPING ON AN AIRPLANE THERE WILL BE TYPOS. JUST LETTING YOU KNOW. OK? OK THEN.

En route and up in the air. With inflight wireless, I feel contextually obligated to post.

Excited for tomorrow with David Brooks and Homaro Cantu of Chicago's own Moto on the sked.

These are the familiar ones to me, but one of the best parts of the experience is the surprise talk.

The one talk from a person with a background I don't connect with and a topic that doesn't (on the surface) seem to catch my ADHD-addled interest.

One year it was a from a woman who crocheted a reef (I think).

Often, these have been the most inspiring talks. So that gets me excited when I look over the program and don't recognize a speaker.

It also causes me stress. Like a hyper conference nerd, I am always haunted by the fear that I might miss The Most Important Thing or Talk or Experience. So I try to get to it all. Like a cram to gulp it all down.

Which makes me glad all will be re-broadcast on the site later.

Another stressor is simply the amount of content to input in a day. As a professional creative person, I am always absorbing and storing ideas, language, images, impressions, faces, moments, flashes on mental hard drive for, hopefully, a productive output later at a relevant time. But the sheer amount of input over the next couple days always comes close to frying the noggin. Plus I have curb my enthusiasm "to make something" out of all the input. I'm a compulsive creative soul . . . I need to output as much as I need to collect fodder. Look, before you feel too sorry for me, I know that these are not big problems/issues in the scheme of all things, believe me.

One of the arguments to attend TED in either Palm Springs or Long Beach in person, analog-style is to mingle (connect, network, expand, socialize, whatever) with the other attendees.
My last TED, I didn't capitalize on that aspect of the conference as I much as i wanted to/want to this time. Those of you who know me, know that I am quite easy going, easy to talk to, but yet, you know, though the conference is set up to make it comftable to connect, a little social awkwardness always creeps into these things.

Anyway, this will be the last of the pre-TED musings. About to transition to real time observations.

Stay tuned.