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DLD Resumee by Thomas
First, you can get an overview of all articles published on this live blog here.
After three days of intense blogging, live blogging(!), there should be a little resumée. Must be a personal one, naturally, although I aim to grasp some of that spirit hopefully many people sensed in these days of Digital, Life, Design 09.
In the position of being confronted with so many ideas, witted people, diverse subjects, opinions, trends and conversations I felt intectually challenged almost all the time. Plus, trying to find my own "art of live blogging" I was in a constant state of concentration, in search of the essence of the panels I focused on to cover. Now I feel tired and inspired, with the "Black swan" beside my bed and "What would Google do" on my desk. And with many images still in mind that make it hard just to say "DLD was awesome!". But it certainly was.
We had economics, design, psychology, neurobiology, architecture, technology, education, fashion, music.. DLD was so diverse and at the same time deep in concern of the arguments of the people and mostly entertaining by the performance. And this inspirationally broad deepness certainly had effects on the talks in the hallway which I personal did not have. Because I had to blog. Because I was honoured to blog!
My thanks go to the whole team, all those fast and motivated people who made this conference so smooth, so you would not notice the organization, just the flow. And especially to my blogger colleagues Nicole, Oliver and Andrea. We came up with some nice techniques to cover people's talk with live writing which include Google Docs, hand signs, twitter search, mobile photo uploads and the help of people who plug the laptops, know about details, give comments.
So thank you all, team, speakers, participants and especially to the cute coffee machine in the team room.Before I go and polish my posts and clean up all the typos, here are my personal Top9::
9. With the Zuckerberg appearance I found the controversial twitter conversation as interesting as what was said on stage.
8. The Varsavsky - Obermann talk
7. Simplicity (mostly)
6. Fashion
5. The paddle symphony
4. Internet politics
3. Reflection on a crisis
2. The robots!
1. Predictably IrrationalAnd here are fotos! We love fotos. (all Flickr pics tagged with dld09)
January 28, 2009
01:10 AM
Comments (1)
Bernd von Frankenberg· 05/02/09 · 07:45 PM
A very careful and interesting summary. Compliment to the writer. But there are some question too. Notes from the session with Nassim Taleb, Daniel Kahnemann, John Brockmann.
" Ideas are bad for you " Which ideas do you mean? My own or others. Ideas are the result of thought. I am writing down whenever I can. A communication is only possible with ideas. So let us start.
" About the theory of medicine " (rationalism/theoretical). Medicine as theory and practice is the result of rationalism/logic sometimes too mechanic/materialistic. First of all it was observation what happens.Then came therapy - the ancient word was the right one:
"Remedium" come back to the middle (body, mind and spirit). In other words avoid extreme behavior.
"you have theory you despise evidence "
"despise" is the problem - what one helps is wrong for the others. We should look for oppertunities not so much for obligations.
Astrology is a kind of symbolism. " Profession makes claims" without contolling it is going the wrong way." Data" is statistic.Static.
So we have to discuss more lively,thoughtfully. Sensetive and sensible. Affirmationes, positive thinking,will help." Golden rules" will help too.
Last not least a replic to "We need to understand why we fail in our irrationality":
" We have very bad intuition"
So we must do something for our right brain hemisphere. We have never learned at school. How to use our brain. Switching left/right.
Mental-training is something new.Programming positive thinking blocking negetive thoughts. Use affirmations which helps to get better thinking and feeling.We must know more about causalties. What´s happen has something to do how we think. Thinking ist energy it can help or it can destroy.Better feeling.. what is the other fellow thinking about. If you want to speak listening...let the other fellow handle your case...
With good wishes and furthermore success in all affairs.