Earl’s Online W.U.P. - my online Wake Up Pad

WUP (Wake Up Pad) One - with Flickr notes

Scanning the 10 principles of Burning Man from the website

10 Principles

Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.

Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.

Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

WUP (Wake Up Pad) One - with Flickr notes

Scanning K. Anders Ericsson in Fast Company's Nov. '06 Final Word On Becoming The Best

Q: What do you have to do to become the best?

A: Successful people spontaneously do things differently from those individuals who stagnate. They have different practice histories. Elite performers engage in what we call "deliberate practice" - an effortful activity designed to improve individual target performance. There has to be some way they're innovating in the way they do things."

- K. Anders Ericcson, Florida State University, Final Word, Fast Company 11.06

WUP (Wake Up Pad) One - with Flickr notes

Scanning newspaper - The Capital (Annapolis, MD) article on US crime statistics

FBI ranking of the top 10 most dangerous/safest cities in US (Morgan Quinto Press)

Most Dangerous                     Safest

1. St Louis                              Brick, NJ
2. Detroit                                 Amherst, NY
3. Flint, MI                              Mission Viejo, CA
4. Compton, CA                       Newton, MA
5. Camden, NJ                        Troy, MI
6. Birmingham, AL                   Colonie, NY
7. Cleveland                            Irvine, CA
8. Oakland                              Cary, NC
9. Youngstown, OH                  Greece, NY
10. Gary, IN                            Coral Springs, FL

First blush pondering:

The most dangerous part of the country could be the Midwest, with  6 of the 10  most dangerous cities.

The safest part of the country could be the East, with  5 out of the 10 most safe cities.

Old industrial cities are 8 of the 10 most dangerous.

All of the most safe cities are smaller than any of the most dangerous cities.

The two cities that I live between (about 20 miles or so from each) are  12 (Baltimore) and 19 (Washington) on the most dangerous list.

WUP (Wake Up Pad) One - with Flickr notes

Scanning Watts Wacker, fururist, from an online presentation

"Out on the edge is where everything begins. Whatever it is that you want your future to be, it begins on the edge."

"The edge is where everything begins, and it starts its migration to the development of our context for the times in which we live."

"Cultural schizophrenia is really nothing more and nothing less than the gap between the world as we intuit it and the world as it presents itself."

"Autocatalytic change creates its own change as it goes."

"How you organize your view of the future has an awful lot to do with what happens in it."

The Pillars Of Creation/Innovation

"Scope - you have to give yourself permission to think big."

"Attention to detail - anyone who says, "That's just a little thing," I think is a candidate to be fired. Absolute commitment to the smallest of issues is important in creation."

"You have to challenge convention - how do you give yourself permission to break out of norms?"

"You have to insert fun. 70% of everything you learn in life is through play."

"You have to create your own process. You have to find out what inspires you, personally. 80% of life is just showing up, but for just showing up you get a "C." The way you bring your A game is you find what inspires you, and not only do you find what inspires you, you give yourself a chance to reflect, to incubate."

This is all in quotes because I thought it was so good - and I kept pausing the player to make sure I got it right. (I think I did.)

I have the bottom and center books, and the third one (top right) is on my Christmas wish list - I've heard it's excellent. (Hint, hint...)

The Deviant's Advantage: How to Use Fringe Ideas to Create Mass Markets

The 500 Year Delta: What Happens After What Comes Next

The Visionary's Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That will Shape the Future of Your Business