Okay, I just came back from the World Domination Summit in Portland.
Which is not a cult.
Or a secret neo-fascist meeting.
Or a collection of merry kinksters.
The World Domination Summit, created by traveler/author/entrepreneur (and confessed introvert) Chris Guilleabeu, brings together a number of people who have done really interesting things with their lives with a larger group of people who are interesrwd in doing really (or more) interesting things with their lives.
For me, the highlights were a slick brilliant presenter on presentation who quoted Jesus AND Eva Peron, a guy who looked like Santa Claus and quoted the Bible, and a Christian author who used to drunk-tweet after watching TED talks.
Any conference where the bathrooms remain immaculate is my kind of conference.
Any conference where this confirmed cheerful atheist says to herself, "You know, I really ought to read the New Testament again," is..my kind of conference?
I want to be snarky, but I can't stay snarky. The first speaker, Nancy Duarte, used Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to make major, powerful points about how to present to an audience. And the last speaker, Don Miller, analyzed a picture of Dr. King marching with Ralph Abernathy. I believe it was the March on Selma, and you'll have to forgive me that I don't remember. But it was clearly one where people were sure they were going to be killed.
And many of the attendees put on a life jacket, jumpedi in an inner tube, and together with some other brave souls, jumped in the Willamette River, and held hands in the longest continuous in-the-water chain on record.
So...it was like that.
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