NOTE: I am moving to the WEST COAST in a few months. So, ah, come get a piece of me while you still can!

BIO: I'm trying to start a revolution using internet technology. I work a lot, but I'm also a good listener and I try to be genuine and real and connected and to do daring, beautiful things.

I also like going on adventures and meeting people. To that end, here's some ideas. Skip over this part if you're not into adventures!

STEALTHY
- leave ransom notes inside dusty books deep in the Smith libraries.
- secret agent rendezvous at streetcorners
- pretend to be spies, exchange briefcase with mission inside in haymarket.

SWEET
- bring art supplies to a cafe, do not exchange words, work together
- listen for the sounds beneath all the other sounds
- each cooks a meal for the other and hides it somewhere, like in an alley. We eat separately and write about it.
- meet in silence, communicate by pointing at things we find beautiful.

PHYSICALLY INTENSE
- a water gun fight in public.
- extreme hopscotch
- hill-rolling expeditions
- skydiving
- race together down mainstreet, weaving around pedestrians, then discuss.

OTHERWISE INTENSE
- try to be either completely honest or completely fake.
- find a stranger to assist in some profound way
- run a downtown cartwheel contest
- right away: share worst fears and other psychological issues
- meet one another without the benefit of sight, or talking, or both

INTIMACY AND DISTANCE
- meet for coffee, but w/o introducing ourselves or talking. Instead, we sit near each other and read books, exchange an occasional glance, and then leave.
- dance to the same song playing on each of our ipods, but across town
- meet at a park bench, look at a tree together for a few minutes, then go separate ways.
- leave notes and symbols for one another with sidewalk chalk

From My Facebook Profile:
Joe is an event and community artist.
He works with communication
technology, public space, and fun.
I like transaction cost economics, dance and performance, kindness, wishes, rowboats, swimming, goats, acrobats, dancers, tatami mats, lemonade, avant garde music, fresh herbs, food fights.

I'm the CEO (of an internet company). It seems like, at this time, that's the way to make the most profound change I can.

Giving talks; listening and trying to understand what people are after; dancing.

BOOKS.

jorge luis borges, malcolm gladwell, david foster wallace, ursula k leguin, byron katie, kurt vonnegut. yochai benkler..

FOOD.

lemonade. guacamole. toro. grits. pancetta. endive.

- how to be even more alive

- the effect that the money economy has on the way we interact and engage each other

- choreography for a new economy

I like folks who, when they stop to check, find they're in love with the world.