Comments on: Unusual collaborations at Creative Capital http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/07/27/unusual-collaborations-at-creative-capital/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ann Long http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/07/27/unusual-collaborations-at-creative-capital/comment-page-1/#comment-1552133 Ann Long Fri, 08 May 2009 15:36:08 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2133#comment-1552133 Can you steer me to learn more about innovative literature through Creative Capital? Can you steer me to learn more about innovative literature through Creative Capital?

]]> By: Michael Nielsen http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/07/27/unusual-collaborations-at-creative-capital/comment-page-1/#comment-1125239 Michael Nielsen Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:22:22 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2133#comment-1125239 "This weekend has gotten me thinking a lot about OPC, "other people's conferences", events where you?ve got the chance to attend and participate, but you?re not part of the demographic/psychographic/professional group the conference is being held for. They?re really fun, really provocative, but bad for your ego - no one knows who you are or what you?re doing there. I suspect I should go to more of them." On a related note, one of the things I most enjoy is the occasional opportunity to give talks to audiences whose expertise is orthogonal to my own field. I invariably learn an enormous amount; curiously, the better my talk, the more I learn. “This weekend has gotten me thinking a lot about OPC, “other people’s conferences”, events where you?ve got the chance to attend and participate, but you?re not part of the demographic/psychographic/professional group the conference is being held for. They?re really fun, really provocative, but bad for your ego – no one knows who you are or what you?re doing there. I suspect I should go to more of them.”

On a related note, one of the things I most enjoy is the occasional opportunity to give talks to audiences whose expertise is orthogonal to my own field. I invariably learn an enormous amount; curiously, the better my talk, the more I learn.

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