Personal Long Now Salon

Let's get together and talk about our Personal Long Now's. Every year I do some kind of project for New Year's, and this year I've been thinking a lot about creative career design and how I want to impact the world. Come join me for a salon where we talk about what one person can accomplish over the long term. What's worth accomplishing? What will most affect the future of humanity?

Here's bit of food for thought: if you compare the size or lifespan of a human to the universe, humans are MUCH more powerful in time than they are in space, i.e. 100/14 billion years is much better than 2m/91 billion light years. In fact by that metric, we're billions of times more powerful in time than we are in space. So: let's leverage that!

Also, there will be a discussion of the best SALT from this year (please come prepared with your favorite!). Here's a list of 2016 talks (in reverse chronological order) for your reference:

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco #11, Rick Prelinger
The Extreme Present, Douglas Coupland
The Brain and the Now, David Eagleman
The Well Tempered City, Jonathan Rose
Quantum Computer Reality, Seth Lloyd
The Next 30 Digital Years, Kevin Kelly
Algorithms to Live By, Brian Christian
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control, Walter Mischel
Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Priyamvada Natarajan
Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond, Jane Langdale
Fire Fast, Fire Slow, Fire Deep, Stephen Pyne
1177 B.C. When Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline