Well, it’s not every day that you attend a session with your colleagues that ends with a joke about internet porn. Please, don’t call HR on me! Just watch Julia Sweeney’s hilarious description of her experience talking to her daughter about the birds and the bees. It starts with frogs and ends with her forehead-slapping realization that she’s just led her daughter to the internet to search about mating habits. I bet she quickly installed some parental filtering software on the family computer.
It all started innocently enough. First we listened to Arthur Brooks exhort us to work together and throw partisanship overboard. Too much politics at lunchtime for some of us, but overall we agreed with the message.
Then we jumped into the fantasy world of Alex Kipman. Gary T., we all thought of you! I just hope we use this technology for good: my Stephen King brain came up with all sorts of frightening scenarios.
And then… well. I wasn’t going to mention how this hilarious little talk ends, but the other TTL attendees thought it was a must. Let’s see if I get in trouble. Or, as my colleagues predict, we suddenly get a lot more attendees at TTL.