This was actually in an email that I got from LinkedIn after getting a connection request fulfilled from a colleague:
“Every person you connect with builds value for you and all your connections.”
I’ve certainly found it true.  Are there any stories of this that come readily to mind for you?

I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a couple weeks now: community as your operating system.  If you need to find the answer to something or produce some kind of ‘knowledge object’ (I can’t think of a better word) you can run queries against your network of amateur experts - your very [...]

A few months ago, I saw a call for entry for a print publication called the Squealer.  The Squealer is a semi annual media arts journal put out by Squeaky Wheel, a grassroots, artist-run non-profit media arts center in Buffalo, New York.   The issue’s theme was Codes & Community.  As these are two topics I [...]

The following is a brief list of things I’m learning about the connection between your passion and your purpose. Hopefully it grows as I continue on my path.
A purpose is most powerful when connected with your passions.
It is from your purpose that all other actions flow.
Sharing your purpose with others is generally [...]

rest assured there’s a box for you
waiting always
or another category for you to try on
perhaps something that might not fit,
a path that does not work,
or only leads you so far before you
start to see its sad disappearance
into the horizon
these markers are again, inevitably, not enough
chalklines on the pavement outlining where the corpus was (it too, [...]

what about the people NOT on the internet?

no systems
no heroes
no customs
no war
no difference
no meaning
no structure
no planning
no map
no power
no walls
there is an infinitexisting (v.)
beneath, within, throughout
but do not speak.
for we
are the fragile vessels
the hope and future,
of those coming after us

the iPhone advertised in a low-income dentist’s office

Is coming
Is moving
Is music
Thoughts in a stream
Pass by
Slowly or fleeting
The universe. Getting channeled.

in a hundred years, no matter how enlightened you became in this life, no one may care or even know. think of all the people who you never knew who came before you. they lived their life and then they passed. we, like anyone else, are part of the evolution of those who will come [...]