The Power of Inaction – My Salt Lake City Ignite Presentation
I’ve just finished up my presentation for the upcoming Salt Lake City Ignite Event. Ignite is part of Oreilly’s Global Ignite Week – speakers from all over the world will share a short 5 minute presentation including 15 slides on the topic of their choice.
My presentation, the Power of Inaction, is about an idea that I’ve had for a few years now based on the principle of inaction found in Chinese Philosophy. I decided to hand illustrate all 20 slides in the presentation, a task which turned out to be way more work than i had originally anticipated. In the end, I’ve got some fun drawings, including an impressive mullet, Chuck Norris, and more. I’ll post the full presentation and drawings after the event.
Ignite SLC will be held this coming Thursday, March 4th, 2010 from 6 – 10 pm. The event will be held in the State Room. The event is free, but there’s only room for 300 people (it is anticipated to fill up), so if you want to go, you should plan on arriving early.
I’m looking forward to the other presentations, and am expecting to have a lot of fun.
Hopefully I’ll see you there to cheer me on.
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This was a great presentation last night. A cool philosophical approach paired with engaging hand-drawn slides. Well done.
I have to ask the question though, isn’t the fact that you had to “do something” so that others would think to “do nothing” kind of defeat the purpose? :-)
(of course, that means I shouldn’t have posted this comment either, huh.)
Adam,
Thanks for commenting and supporting Ignite! That was a lot of fun, and I had a ton of fun putting it together.
So, for your question—I guess that I think that Inaction is about “not doing”, not about “doing nothing.” Even though I did do a crap-load of work on this presentation, there was even more that I could have done that I did not. :) “Not doing” when you don’t need to, and doing when you do…