Just found this on Mark’s site, an excellent introduction to going barefoot for the lay person, as well as a nice pump for Vibram.
Wearing Speeds these days myself, and loving them.
Archive | April, 2012
Now this is a good ad for Vibram/going barefoot …
The Importance of Quality Video Production and Distribution : This Will Shock You
I heard a lot of complaints about the video from AHS 2011. Probably because video from The 21 Convention is so consistently off the charts, and their video production was shockingly poor, especially given the all-star 2011 speaking lineup.
What few realize I think is just how critical video production and distribution is for a speaker, for a speech, for an event, an organization, and so on…
To put this in perspective, I just did an average daily view count for Doug McGuff’s AHS speech and compared it to the average daily view rate for his speech at The 21 Convention 2010.
The results are startling, even to me.
His official AHS video averages just over 5.5 views a day. There is no indication this will increase at any future point in time.
Doug’s 21 Convention talk averages over 550 views a day, has for months on end, and all variables point to this rate only increasing as time goes on.
That wasn’t a typo. That’s 5.5 views versus 550, per day.
- Exactly…
I Don’t Work to Help You
I don’t think many people understand why I run The 21 Convention. I’m sure a few do, but they are a tiny minority. Shit, I’ve only come to understand my own drives clearly over the past 2 years in general, and the past few months in specific.
The free aspect of The 21 Convention only compounds upon this confusion, the confusion of why I do what I do.
I say “confusion” because most people seem to believe I run The 21 Convention to help people, mostly men. This is an easy conclusion to reach since most entrepreneurs espouse this as the fundamental purpose of their work (regardless of whether or not it is actually true), and even feel guilty if it is not their chosen purpose for working.
The fact that all of the videos from the convention are view-able for free, again, only adds weight to this conclusion.
Yet, it is not true, never has been true, and never will be true of me.
Am I glad when my…
Speaking List World Premiere : The 21 Convention 2012
Okay, this isn’t really a blog post, but this is important to me, and I know how important it is to many of you. Without further delay, here are the 2012 London and Austin speaking lists (Australia’s list will follow in July). Conference rooms have also been booked for all events and photographs/addresses can be seen on each event’s actual ticket page.
This is the world premiere speaking roster for The 21 Convention 2012 of London England, taking place in central London, June 22nd-24th 2012, from 9am to 7pm daily.
Confirmed speakers:
The Objectivist Rejection of Libertarianism
I’m not the right person to put this eloquently, nor am I even particularly good at doing so in the first place. Instead, I’ll spell the objectivist rejection of libertarianism out, as I personally understand it.
Objectivism rejects libertarianism because at it’s core, libertarianism is not a philosophy, nor even a political philosophy, but an anti-philosophy. This is seen most clearly when libertarianism is described as a “united front” for liberty. While that sounds nice enough, what it actually means is anything and everything goes, so long as it is for liberty.
So in theory, you could be a devout altruist/collectivist, completely reject the supremacy of man’s mind, and you would still be welcomed with open arms to libertarianism — simply because you believe liberty is a value worthy of “the common good” that you do your best to serve, every day.
In this case, a person’s highest moral value is serving others, and not his own happiness. An individual’s right to life is of no major consequence…
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