Blockchain Blows My Skirt Up.

Day 22 — Book Writing/Birthday Month
Here I am again in a room full of
developers and entrepreneurs.
Ritual de lo habitual.
People talking about tokens, ICOs, use cases,
Blockchain, Bitcoin, Etherium, “hard forks”…
In tech and computers,
why does it seem that as much as things change they stay the same?
Like Nancy McSharry Jensen told me years ago in her office.
When SharePoint was still code name Tahoe…
Heather if you are a marketer, you can market anything
a cup, a piece of luggage, a piece of software…
You just need to learn the lingo and the tech.
She wasn’t wrong.
I am sitting at a table writing this and I glance
At the fellow’s computer next to me.
And I see my photo.
My twitter page.
I’ve been tweeting as I am want to do.
I giggle and tell Garry sitting
Next to me.
The fellow realizes, and says “nice profile,
I saw your hashtag and tweets
And realized you were next to me”.
He laughs as well and we all giggle
About how weird the world is.
I’m at this event learning per usual, which I love.
(thank you Jill for inviting me into this world)
I tend to gravitate to the bleeding edges
Of things
Wicked smart people
Doing brilliant things.
I love working in SharePoint land with
My software business Content Panda.
And I also love working with businesses
(Through my consulting biz, Creative Maven)
Who do good things for the world
Bring something new to game
And are simply good people.
These days I’m doing coaching, strategy, biz dev, and marketing
For companies in SharePoint, cybersecurity, UAS drones,
public safety/security, and now blockchain.
I love my merge of artist/theater/tech
I like working both sides of my brain
And find they intersect more often than naught.
I think this digital currency stuff.
Is going to be the next big shift
In our world. Another revolution.
Connect this with truly dealing with
Climate change and SHAZAM!
The philosophy & people behind this tech
Is what I find interesting.
They all talk about “trust”
And that the brokering of that.
Reduction of friction
Edging out the “middleman”
Democratizing commerce.
Ownership of your IP/identity
A record being “immutable”
Fascinating.
The passion that surrounded me yesterday
Was the same thing I felt when I started
Working at Microsoft.
It was the same passion I felt when I was
Producing theatre.
Working with my startups.
I love that, the spark of that.
The “yes I flipping LOVE this “— feeling
the “I believe in this” emotion.
A collective one though, you know.
Not just one person or a few.
A wave of people.
I don’t know if blockchain will be that thing
That changes us like
The printing press
The steam engine
The internet
But I like the theory behind it
I love the passion
I love the philosophy
I love the clearing of obstacles
The word immutable.
And plan to be in the thick of it
Per usual.
I don’t quite understand it all yet
And neither do the folks that
“run things”
tis a bit amorphous.
They told me so.
Which is something else I like.
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Written by Head Maven & CEO, Heather Newman, Creative Maven
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