• You need to do a WHOLE SXSW TREATMENT of defcon.
• I wish John could rename the SXSW circle as the defcon circle. ack.

hopefully they will show up soon ?

• basically, do they work? do they make sense?
• definitely send a bunch to sararah

election themed perhaps ?

i need to make this competitive somehow

and I need to get them CRAVING COLOR & DESIGN YOUR OWN

It’s a problem I have to solve in general

created a defcon 2008 space in the template

• populate this with notes relating to each session
  • these notes can link to the “defcon quasicircle”

created a defcon user account

• try to get John to switch out SXSW for defcon as a circle
• create spaces of interest to hackers and hope for traffic
• create some kind of tiny schwag thing you can give away

• hopefully it will arrive on time
• how will I do this?
  • adopt a sticker?
• what will it mean to unamerican to do this?
  • must recreate Unamerican before defcon

that was a good exercise, redesigning stickernation.

now it’s time to redesign unamerican.

i really have zero slack from here on out. it’s got to be done tonight, this weekend etc.

i need to return the car too.

• plane
• hotel
• haven’t planned this at all
• no idea

this is what success at DEFCON means:

• All hackers buy from StickerNation.com
• All hackers love METANOTES and are amazed
  • They want the source code and want to see the API
• I sell a great big heap of Unamerican stuff
• I relaunch Unamerican in general
• No problems
• I hook up with Sarah at Paris

of course i’d love to stay at the Paris ! :)

it’s ridiculous to think that the poker of life gives brown folk any advantages

and here i am about to think INSIDE of it.

that would be a unique opportunity

• i want unamerican opensourced
• i want stickernation opensourced

when i say “opensourced” i mean “srinisourced” of course

help me dear god

video could be the viral salvation of metanotes.

maybe i need to figure out how to do “video demos” onscreen so as to help users get familiar with it.

whatever

people need to WANT TO BRAINSTORM

people need to want to use nothing else

dittoheads who think they know something and SCREAM about it

they are so wrong

they are so loud

they are SO SUCCESSFUL because UNAMERICAN should be ATTACKING THEM and NOT JUST SITTING THERE SELLING STUFF.

now i need to get people to actually want to brainstorm

i need some topics

but unamerican is the ultimate metatopic

so it’s all coming together at an unamerican redesign then.

that makes sense.

and i’m getting hypnotized tomorrow

• get well known
• design new masters
• pump them out very fast and in an operations kind of way
  • it’s a yoga of pinmachine

like the racist guy who says “black folk are good for chicken”

the programs they watch: ATTACK ATTACK (with ideas of course)

i can take this meme over from that 2600 emmanual guy

i will do so at defcon

• research
  • oreilly
  • slashdot
  • hacker bboards in general
• show up with PEOPLEMATH SCREEN SHOTS
• look at defcon content
  • create metanotes spaces for them
    • solo
    • group
    • REMEMBER – THESE ARE FOR BRAINSTORMS
• clever leading questions

* way new tech

• new tools
• coding dilemmas
• legal issues
  • mutual aid during crisis
  • copyright
• encryption
• creating startups
  • idea generation
  • specs
  • research
  • screenshots
  • preserve privacy
  • 37signals

• talks
• hacker issues
• say hi
• jobs
• project starter
• better template spaces
  • “talk nerdy to me”
• get content up there

“if you don’t want to be generous to your brothers, why do you promote the policies that economically destroy them?”

stop blaming individuals and start reinventing your culture to help everyone get going

perhaps you have something to learn from different cultures because your culture is fake and based on artificial community versus something truly real.

we are close despite this

the “system” is trying to destroy what is organically good about people

slave labor bolsters your economy and gets you cheap lettuce

a lot of them do pay taxes, at least sales taxes, but you elitists with tax loopholes are full of spite for “carrying them”

such arrogance

I will have the b-cards by then, it’ll be awesome

this is a great brainstorming tool

here are some things that could go wrong:

• my car or driving gets me in trouble
• i don’t get a hotel room or whatever
• i should get up with john ASAP to plan any encounters
• i could get busted for whatever
• i could fail to sell jack shit and get mad

totally wish i had put that in there

i’ve paid, they have to be up and running:

• wufoo+paypal on stickernation.com
• aweber – wtf, get going !!!
• freshbooks
• instantaudio ???

I need to have topics for brainstorming set.

I also need to really understand the new user sequence.

if possible, I should create a READ ME FIRST metanotes space in the template. GOOD IDEA.

i need to find out what to do about my car !

• do they know about the accident?
• can i re-register the car now?
  • even though i’m late?
  • from out of state?

if bad answers call the mexican dmv assistance line!

so we can have open communication

according to eastern philosophers it’s actually key to the energy health… even though there have been certain dramas and various babyish sibling fights in a team, we actually really admire our teammates don’t we ?

we all have a capacity for cruelty and stubbornness and a semi-confrontational approach but we need to get over our initial hurt feelings and see each other as the cute kids each of us once were.

don’t play politics with me – because i am a power player too.

but we can’t show it to anyone because it’s totally not secure and people can break it

brilliant content paradigm

only those of us who are lucky enough to take it with a grain of salt can appreciate the pop culture bonanza without drowning in it or trying to emulate it.

the characters and the art of their eccentric drama should not be our religion.

it’s just a little added frivolity.

some people take it way too far – they are totally brainwashed by society.

real-time sync means i’d see your notes moved as you can see mine

isn’t it charming that Obama was a professor ?

the communication task of the president is critical.

this guy knows how to teach people something.

senator obama, unleash the specifics.

if you don’t want crime, go for education.

oh well

the world has an operating system

it’s all connected

third world citizens are much more motivated than we are to educate themselves

we must become motivated to learn again

are the british more intellectual

dead on arrival

but the coder didn’t finish it

i don’t know, i think defcon is maybe not the best conference for me right now

i am just not a cool person like that anymore.

i am too old for this.

i guess i’m going to give up. i am pretending that i am still important to these people. to some of them

and it died. the same happened to my book. the same seems destined to happen with unamerican and stickernation. after that conversation i really am feeling awful and done. i told that kid i wanted to move to europe and shut everything down. it’s awful and i think it is true. and you know what? i want to shut it down my way. i want to destroy my memes and never let anyone else use them. you snoozed – you lose. i will go to law school and come down like an evil bastard on everyone.

i’m going out of business.

because this is the only place i want to write anymore, and everyone can read it.

this is such an absurd outcome

i have failed and failed and failed again.

my resume is a portfolio of failure

metanotes. we hardly knew ye.

i want to go out of business

part of me wants to go home right now

except for the fact that i’ve spent so much

it’s like that with me, throwing good money after bad.

would the business have worked out if i hadn’t spent it all ? i doubt it because i really only ever cared about expressing myself. whatever other people might want to express, I don’t really care. i know andrea doesn’t care either. but she never had anything to express from herself – she is a vapid zero, a robot, an automaton. it was like playing chess against the computer. i was going to lose.

i am trying to demolish the last bits of my hope in the future. just smash it all to pieces. the irony about obama’s hope campaign is that hope can be very evil. perhaps when it is when we “hit bottom” and have no hope that we become truly free.

you make the best of what’s still around.

i have a better product than andrea, and i’m going to tell the world about it somehow. i’m not quite sure how yet. but the theory i have is that all i need to do is tell the world. ok, it’s not quite that simple. jeff has to finish up the site. but once he does – once the preview is in, that is, just as I always hoped it would be in… assuming we can PAY for it… then it’s just a matter of telling the world about it, right.

“i wouldn’t exactly call that an ‘advantaged card’ = no royal flush”

what would the total destruction of your life look like?

but there’s nothing positive to brainstorm about given john quitting. that’s that. i don’t want anyone else to steal this idea, so let’s just shut it down. nobody should benefit from this set of ideas, let’s just kill it.

• prison
• irs audit
• run away to canada
• at least $100K in debt
• nobody should hire me
• that’s that, life is over

they’re innocently buying up stickers and laughing at them and have no idea how dire things are.

i want to move to another country.

i want to live in budapest or london or berlin or something.

jeff will have to work with me here.

• easier to use
• dynamic
• “social”
  • you can forward the stickers you create

also, you need to make sure the “upload art” stuff is amazing.

finally you must include things like instantaudio, freshbooks, and maybe getsatisfaction and probably METANOTES into the new stickernation.

mine is color and you can upload your own art.

mine is priced appropriately too.

i’m going to have to say that this si going to have to be generally sufficient.

if the notes were locked by default, that’d be awesome.

bar none

this content is so much more useful to me than a “mindmap”

plus i can share it

• i need to not have to share

i like the idea of approaching other people who print stickers to ask them to try it out.

but i really like the idea of having a design contest. after all if the stickernation design contest worked the first time, it’ll work EVEN BETTER now.

should be a top priority because it’s a GAME