I’m going to be dispersing my little thoughts from my home address now at maxkaizen.com

Thank you so much for the link.love to those who came & shared this space with me!

So we have some answers now .. whether it was racially-insulting or wishing an ugly death on his family Materazzi clearly uses whatever brutal means he has at his disposal to cut his enemies down : check Materazzi in action on YouTube – History of Materazzi – in the video selections the one closest to the bone

I think being South African probably offers a little more insight and certainly more sensitivity to the issue of racism. If Zizou was insulted with a racial slur we hope to see FIFA putting their money where their mouth is on their “say no to racism ” campaign :: getting the backing of Nelson Mandela and other world leaders, pairing up with Nike’s Stand Up Speak Up campaign :: mean nothing if there is no follow-through on an incident that may have been the tipping point in the World Cup Final.

We have no damn time for yet another slick marketing effort that doesn’t live up to it’s promise.

Zinedine Zidane, France Captain: “There is no place for racism. It is impossible to love this sport, to play it or to support a team and be racist or xenophobic at the same time. The values conveyed by football are the exact opposite of racism. Because racism promotes exclusion and hate. Football, in contrast, brings people together to share a common pleasure.

PS. okay one last last one>> because there are guys who say it better than I can. I’m quite passionate about this but not a sports commentator’s bottom so check out: (Zmag)

If you have an avatar, play RPG’s whether WoW or SecondLife or if you live in more dimensions than most people toddling around realise exists: then this post from the incomparable Trendwatching blog won’t startle you at all.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about then best you whizz your eyeballs over there to catch up!

BLIND FAITH is a paradoxical prerequisite for VISIONARY leadership
& having a VISION is not what you can SEE

Sometimes life requires that you just LEAP.. into the seeming void and TRUST your decision is right

I have a tattoo in a place that I can’t see, to remind me to love, honour and obey my immortal passionate spirit until death do we part. (It isn’t a in naughty spot in case you were unsettled BTW)

And I have been unfaithful.

I betrayed myself. And like all those who are unfaithful, it was because I was scared/insecure or whatever numbskull excuse that come down to = fear of not being good enough. Pathetic and selfish. Does this world need yet another deflated resigned slave to the “sensible and sturdy” ..for goodness sake?!

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in Nature. – Helen Keller

1. having got a kick in the pants from my beautiful and fiercely smart friend DeeDee,
2. powering turbo’s of enthusiasm & the sheer delight of taking life by the horns (and not waiting till the beta bugs are blown) from DD
3. a fierce & funny skype session with Mike the unStoppableforth and
   
4. .. and finally Rafiq the Innov8r who stepped into the magic and found it deliciously potent.
   

Thank you guys for reminding me of the fun that’s out there when you’re true to yourself. I wish us all a week of boundless imaginings that compels us to leap into our true genius! The most awful fate for me would be one where I had shrivelled my spirit through insecurity and not ended this earthly game all used up – with a big grin having etched itself on my face from all the years of adventure.

I hereby vow (as of 10 July 2006) to live as I was designed to live :: To take on the challenges that thrill and terrify me to the core. To henceforth LIVE every day of my life..especially when it scares me silly! If you think you might also be up for a big leap year, join me, there’s nothing like the intoxicatingly beautiful company of the courageous..

Others have seen what is and asked ‘why’. I have seen what could be and asked ‘why not‘.- JFK

Yet again EQ beats IQ. If there was any doubt that mastering your emotional intelligence is worthwhile it was last night’s World Cup final>>

Utterly outstanding game for grabbing our attention!and for Zizou who generated global powerlines of attention and conversation in the final minutes of his legendary career. Maybe not a graceful exit :: but he made for a great story :: he went out with a bang (ouch!)

The Web 2.0 Attention Generator Award goes to Zinedine Zidane. Despite the glorious tension of the game through to it’s heart-pounding penalty shoot-out and beauuuuutiful Italian players.. the man I went to sleep thinking about was… ;-)

Most of us haven’t a clue where the web is leading us and the concepts of web 2.0, MMORPG’s, SEO or even blogs (what’s that?!) are not even a reality to a major chunk of humanity. But nonetheless our global consensual reality is under construction & the developers>> yes, the GEEK shall inherit the earth ;-)

[Douglas Rushkoff - bless his clarifying genius - has a podcast from Pop!Tech on the Renaissance at ITconversations that is WELL worth listening to. If you were wondering about the validity of new dimensional doors opening[ ] I feel the tug of string theory once more]

and for those of us who delight in making it up as we go along .. this is the new Age of the Explorer - not IE BTW! thanks Donovan for pointing that out 4 Firefoxies

we’re all out hunting for the edge of the known world>>

Charting the map in collaboration (even if we have to turn the map upside down to or make the world flat again to get there). Our direction determined it by what gets the most attention – following powerlines and meme-volution >> to get us beyond where the map used to say “HC SVNT DRACONES” :: here be dragons (we just don’t buy that limited version anymore – pay attention to the conversation it’s 2.0 open source freeplay… and thanks to the South African dragon.boundary challenger and space explorer more real UBUNTU to share the fun..respect Mr Shuttleworth)

we have set sail & we’re inexorably committed

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back–

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now ” – brought to us by the dazzling mind of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the early 1800′s …

The rational mind is the one that tells us we have to see the path before we begin, but the heart (in collaboration with the right brain it should be noted) has heard the homing signal through the noise and static of complexity and to-do lists and will follow it blindly if needs be>>

  and don’t be startled if a big flapping purple dragon swoops you up and  plonks you in the castle of your dreams ;-)

..and so we quest on dear friends >> to infinity & beyond

I found it in a little tumbledown 2nd hand book store ..quietly throbbing its signal to my young heart. My fingers tracked it to an innocuous maroon clothbound book from whose pages unfurled the most potent spell known to mankind.

Clad in ancient Egyptian ritual (to do what religions must and obscure our rational minds from the mind-reeling simplicity of reality re-shaping).

Want to know what it is??

aaah magic ..okay and a little pinch of mathematical reasoning to keep it stable

[This is the stripped down bare naked version (disrobed of lavish ceremony and ritual - which is quite fun so do endeavour to build in your own!)]

The simple spell to make whatever you want manifest out of thin air is:

oddly enough>> make a decision (what do you WANT), commit (in writing, to seal the contract if you will and put your order in (by getting some action in) … aah yes, and leave a little room for the faith factor :: to allow for the improbable to work its magic (x factor)

Howevermathematics is the language of the universe.. so let it solve for x.

a x (x) + b = c

a = (me); b = (action taken to show committment); c = my desired outcome/product .. x = (what has to happen beyond your control in order for it to happen – “synchronicity”)

Nature abhors a vacuum (x).. use physics to help you along… know what you want (c) and know you you are*(a), you start the movement (there is no matter without motion – Einsteinian physics) and the conditions for (x) will ( by simple (eye of Newt)onian physics) - HAVE to materialise by the fundamental laws of that underwrite physical reality. Easy peasy!

Smart beings appreciate a good logic puzzle every now & then – so rev up your imagination engine and give the old universe a problem it’ll thrill to solve ;-)

..so there we are: my version of the classic, and since we all seem to blog about our theories of goal-setting I didn’t want to be left out of the confession session.

(oh yeah, and actually the thrill of the World Cup :: anxiously :: anticipating goal scoring every night secretly inspired me!)

BTW If you don’t have a method magic or otherwise for reconstructing your reality – I heartily recommend Steve Pavlina who writes so clearly and convincingly about making life reorder the way you want it to, it almost makes me want to do something about mine (only joking :-P)

*okay this is the difficult bit – as was inscribed above the Oracle of Delphi “Know Thyself” – when we get that right we’ll never need call a psychic hotline again.

In celebration of human heroes who will not be daunted by silly little things: like not being able to see where they’re going.. c’mon what the hell! LEAP!

Humans love quests!! accept & move on.. questions open the door for quests>> so here’s one I LOVE:

What would you do if you had the guts to do it??

If you think you’re too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. – Anita Roddick (Body Shop)

Today I was inspired again by the leadership of someone unexpected.

There are unusual leaders who stride among us, those for whom the hierarchical contraints of traditional leadership and tenure mean squat. You won’t recognise them by their suits, because they may still be in school uniform. They move faster and with a deft ease that defies assumptions. It’s ever more satisfying to be taken by surprise at someone’s strength. If you were at SA’s 1st BarCamp – we got to be there because of the surprising leadership of the geekspin powernode himself Conrad Strydom. . and now the baton has been picked up by the dazzling young Edrich from Durban (BarcampDurban it’s happening in December, so what a gr8 excuse to be in the lush hibiscus-sugarcanegreen-golden-beached Zulu kingdom over the silly season..so sign up & join me.. sounds like an East Coast roadtrip in the making!)

Edd got down to CapeTown, presented his project at Barcamp (he’s a hardcore hardware geek – and needs help with funding and electrical engineering – so if you /know anyone/ who wants to get involved in a project that could help disadvantaged communities get up to tech speed >>get in on the groundfloor of this one: get along & check out his site). He decided to organise BarCamp for the BananaRepublic geeks and boom! within a week it’s sorted! He also plays for the Durban City Orchestra & whizzes around the world playing the FrenchHorn. All this in the midst of exams, because yes, Edd is still at school!!

Starting to feel like I should’ve started a whole lot earlier. This morning on my way to get coffee I also spotted Time magazine’s world edition cover: 3 steely Eton boys in school uniform confidently command the cover. BarCamp CapeTown was at school and Durban will be too.. what’s going on here?? LifeLong Learning here we come>>

Clearly I need to pay attention to this signal coming through the noise.. because Dave sent me this link too>> a few days ago Guy Kawasaki (garage.com & Apple legend) paid attention to the giant groundswell of youthful power.. worth a scan, especially if you think teenagers don’t have anything worthwhile to say man.

Another stellar beacon is our friend Christof Appel, young multitalented and unstoppable! Christof will be representing South Africa in Washington DC at the International Toastmasters Competition (..I’m hot on your heels bru ;-) ). His work focusses squarely on empowering more young blazing stars to find an infinite font of confidence and courage within themselves. At age 20(!) he has already arced a blazing trajectory across the local media landscape.. rock on brutha!

.. and I’ll be whizzing in for a freshly baked muffin because of their Blogger’s Promo (thanks to Dave – we ARE a market segment!). You’re a legend bru ;-)

Thanks to Dave’s underground microbranding strategy, Caffeine has shot up WordPress’ fastest growing blog stats to 33rd globally. Excellente. I’m particularly stoked ‘cos their shop is a few metres away from my office (which I share BTW with a brilliant German designer Kristoph with a wicked sense of humour – so if you ever need a website designed or fresh brand face he’s deep in the trust network!).. so I’ll be delighted if it attracts a rockin’ crew because I’m missing being in the heart of town.

Caffeine was a Barcamp sponsor which is why their logo got emblazoned on my memory and consequently coming out of my fingers today I reckon. [Dave's underground tactics clearly doing their job!] But I was thinking about the coffee industry generally.. and feeling a bit glum that South Africa has not 1 single Starbucks! (starting to feel a bit like that geeky-kid who is always the last to be chosen). I owned a coffeeshop in the beautiful Hout Bay, Cape Town where I fell in love with the speedy bean.. (see pretty picture: this is where I spent 2years learning how to love connecting with people & met some true treasures).

Geeks LOVE caffeine, check out ThinkGeek’s online store if you ever doubted it! ..and at last it appears, Caffeine is loving us back! oooh yay>> wanna come in for a coffee baby??