CURRENT MISSION

ادرس اللرا عربا very very poorly!

ABOUT ME

Ran a tech startup in the US, working with newspapers to help them move online. Worked at the HuffPost for two years, now traveling and working on an education company.

PHILOSOPHY

First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do - Epictetus

If you're bored then you're boring--Harvey Danger

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host and surf, and tell everyone who will listen how this is changing the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I lived on couchsurfing for two months in college when I was working on the Obama campaign, and hosted as often as my roommates would let me (which wasn't much). Now getting back into the community.

Interests

Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Social Production, Social People, Social Hour, Ice Cream Social

Motorcycles, Guitar, Bass, Soccer, Collective Action, Unschooling, Gov 2.0, Democracy, TED.com, Philosophy

• education
• motorcycles
• technology
• traveling
• guitar
• soccer
• communications
• economics
• teaching
• entrepreneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Here Comes Everybody, The Alchemist, The Art of Living, The Dispossessed, You Shall Know our Velocity, As a Man Thinketh, The Way of Peace, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Music: I will enjoy almost any kind of live music.

Movies: The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Snatch, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Night Sky 100km north of the end of paved road in Canada.

Oh, and while I was riding there I was keeping the oil plug of my motorcycle stuck in with chewing gum!

Teach, Learn, Share

"The surest way to corrupt a youth, is to teach him to hold in higher esteem those who agree with him than those who disagree." (Think that was Nietze)

You can pick jellyfish up if you turn them upside-down.
Jellyfish Fight!

Yochai Benkler on Open Source Economics--a must watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgYE75gkzkM

Clay Shirky on Organizations vs. Institutions
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html

Both talks are key for understanding how Couchsurfing is more than just incredible experiences and the best way to travel, it is the start of a true revolution.

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