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I have dreams of the future based on the Future of Work by Thomas Malone.  Now, I work in a Corporation, I’m a peon, I'm here for now but I am planning my exodus - (finding a replacement is taking longer than I thought, thanks for your patience, Jim). 

I received this in my email - it suggests that you forward the email but I thought it would get more of an audience if it were blogged.  Summary, for those of you who don't have the time to read the whole thing, is buy breast cancer awareness stamps.  A booklet costs $0.60 more than regular stamps and this small effort on your part will make a difference for breast cancer research, and it will make you feel good.

Looks like IBM is catching on to what we've been talking about with Ideascape!  It will be interesting to see how their experiment works; we'll be waiting for the calls, emails, and posts to follow...

Attention has been getting a lot of attention these days.  Seriously!  In this "Attention Economy", what we're all looking for is simply attention.  We chat via IM, text messaging, email, blogs, etc.  What are we really doing though?  Aren't these really attention exchanges?  As my partner, Jim, so deftly calls them, they're reacharounds.  I'm not going to go into exactly what he's comparing them to, but essentially, you scratch my back, I"ll scratch yours is what it all boils down to.  When we ask someone "How are you?  Do we really want to know?  How many times have you seen someone you work with every day and answered, "Im good, and you" before they've really even asked.  It's an automatic...Anyway, I digress.

hey, it got my attention, that phrase.I first read it on Jim Wilde's first website, now defunct.  He was in the process of developing Ideascape...he had some crazy ideas, some mindblowing concepts. When I met him for the first time, his hair standing on edge, cigarette dangling from his lips, hands waving wildly in the air as he discussed his ideas, what he was reading, where he thought he wanted to go, I thought he was probably half crazy, but my curiosity was piqued. Hey, I admit, I'm no techie, so some of the ideas and
things he showed me online blew me away...I've since gotten more up to
speed but the things he knows and the ideas and concepts he keeps bringing up just take my breath away.  This guy must have read every business book ever written! Smart as all hell but at first you're not sure if he's serious; he's got such a self-deprecating manner sometimes, such an unassuming way about himself that you almost think he's full of shit when he tells you about the businesses he's started up, his successes. His self-imposed hibernation from the business world. What really impacted me, though was his determination to
develop a new business that would somehow serve humanity.  Help
people. He knew in some way he wanted to contribute.  "Do the right thing almost every dog gone day of your life" - this hangs over his
desk. His concern for the earth, for everyman. This is a good guy, I thought. I want to work for him! What a great attitude! Something about him brings out the best in everyone around him. He sees possibility where most people see dead ends.  forget out of the box, there is no packaging that could contain him...

Hey, isn't that Jim Wilde of Advancing Insights at the NYC Meetup?  Background, center, blue coat, dark red shirt...;-Dhttp://www.johnkeegan.org/blog/Photos/_archives/2005/5/3/645525.html

In reference to Seth's discussion on ego, my partner Jim neglected to expand on our idea for using blogs as a communications/idea generating tool WITHIN companies.

Okay, this isn't necessarily about innovation, although it could be.  I just have to blog this story.  My friend, who lives out in Colorado, just told me a story that gives me faith in