Shockingly refreshing

[the_s_guy]

Went along to a product brainstorming workshop where three projects - one of them mine - were taken apart and reconstructed by half a dozen brains operating at once. And given that most of them were either engineers or had a severe engineering bent, the amount of data being generated, calibrated, refined, compared, reworked and cohered per minute

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[raisedbymoogles]

*giggles* Sounds like you've found a Good Place.

[the_s_guy]

Some idea of how engaging the metaconcert was: at one point the acting chair pulled up my idea on a projector, and asked me for a presentation.

No warning. No prior preparation. No notes.

And I got up, and spoke for ten minutes solid. I spun a conceptual introduction from the group's knowledge of existing rapid-prototyping and electromechanical construction systems. I led into the project's purpose and the various subsystems which allowed it to achieve that. I outlined a number of possibilities using the 'bag of hooks' approach, so that everyone would have something to play with. I dangled some numbers and percentages. And I summed the whole thing up in a single sentence.

I rushed. I underexplained. I dropped hints and left them hanging. But these were people who were used to listening at 200wpm, who could take what was sketched and what was unsaid, divine the threads in the gaps, and use it to spin worlds.

[brownkitty]

Is there a word that means "awed", "jealous", "wistful", and "nostalgic" all at once?

[princess_kessie]

Go you!

[the_s_guy]

Ya - now I just have to deal with all the other things in life first. :/

Sometimes I think it'd be nice if I could outsource or delegate all the boring bits of my life. No matter what realms I might soar in from time to time, I still end up doing the dishes, hanging out the washing, and worrying about bills.