Jocelyn Aucoin

I'm a connector, an ideator, a firestarter. I'm a proponent of common sense and sideways thinking and am trying to take back the word "creativity" for those who truly are.

Here are some things I believe:

*Social Media is not about marketing, it's about learning and connecting. If you're addicted to Social Media it's because you see Social Media as being about you and thus it feeds your ego. At its best, Social Media is about adding value to and gleaning value from the world. This is how we learn. This is how we grow.

*Creativity is not a liability, it is survival. As our world becomes increasingly more visual, our economy less stable, our workers more mobile, we need to call out our best creative work in ourselves and in each other. This is how we live well. This is community at it's best. Let's have resident creatives in every place of work.

*Culture isn't value words written on the wall, it is lived and breathed among people in relation to one another. The ability to create relationships is done like a stealth cat, not a flittering butterfly. Stop flittering. It's time for meaningful action in places of work. This is how strong cultures are built. This is how work becomes something we love. If you walk the walk, you don't have to talk the talk.

I love life, with a fierce love. And because I love it, I take it seriously. I hear music, don't you?

Let's see the future -- together. Like, let's hack space exploration and make trips to the moon as common as listening to your iPod!

And let's look awesome while we do it.

But first let's start with each other. Let's listen to each other's stories and let's commit to telling them and telling our own. And then let's build something real. Something amazing. Something to talk about.