✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

naive-yearly.are.na

naive-yearly.are.na · 1,460 words · saved by 1 readers

I remember the first sunshine through the bedroom window at 5:30 am. It was Friday, August 11th, the day of the inaugural Naive Yearly conference. I hadn't slept all night, but I wasn't tired. My mind was spinning and my heart was racing. In a few hours, 150 people would meet at the National Film School of Denmark for an entire day's celebration of the quiet, odd, and poetic web. For weeks, Copenhagen had been covered in clouds. I was monitoring the weather forecast like a kid wishing for a white Christmas. It was summer, but until this morning, it felt like Danish autumn: cold, rainy, and windy. I was counting on using the outdoor courtyard at the film school — instead of post-talk Q&As, participants and speakers would converse during breaks — so when those first sun rays reached our bedroom it felt like a gift. I kissed my sleeping family goodbye and left our temporary home. There was hardly anyone outside. A few dog walkers, runners, party-ghosts, sleep-deprived dads with strollers,

naive-yearly.are.na naive-yearly.are.na Foreword Dear reader, I quit within the three-month trial period. On paper, it was the perfect job, the culmination of five years in business school, majoring in innovation and business development. Probably, it was the ideal job. In the following decade, the company would grow from a five-person office to a global team of a hundred innovation consultants charging Fortune 500 companies money for translating emerging technologies into revenue. During the same period, I would float around, from country to country, project to project, never setting down roo

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading