I recently visited Tuck School of Business and gave a lecture on virtual worlds.
You can read all about it on the ReactionGrid blog.
Avatars in the Boardroom – A Presentation at Tuck School of Business
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On Leadership and Community: Wisdom from Lao-Tzu
Lately I’ve been thinking about leadership and communities. And in particular, how the two are so delicately intertwined.
This beautiful passage from the Tao Te Ching has been on my mind a lot.
“Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people will remark
We have done it ourselves.”
Virtual World Endgame: Collapsing the Metaphor
Mitch Wagner recently posted a piece on his blog titled “Why I hardly ever go on Second Life anymore.”
I respect and value Mitch’s perspective a lot. He’s been exploring virtual worlds for years, and it’s clear that he loves their potential. But he’s frustrated by their lack of broad adoption and the multitude of barriers to entry for new users.
Those are sentiments shared by many. But I have a slightly different perspective of the future.
Communicating between Virtual Worlds – RADIONNE
Many people are exploring virtual worlds such as Second Life as well as the growing constellation of Opensim-based worlds.
Here’s a neat device that can help you communicate between them all.
It’s called RADIONNE.
Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #36+37: Visiting Help Island on ReactionGrid
The region Help Island on ReactionGrid is being developed by Tinsel Silvera.
It contains resources for new avatars including a freebie area, a Gallery of Prims for new builders, and Hypergates to various places to explore.
For today’s two meetings we visited Tinsel’s region and had a great discussion about best practices for helping new users in virtual worlds.
My interview with Paisley Beebe on “Tonight Live”
On January 23rd 2011, I was an invited guest on Paisley Beebe’s “Tonight Live” show in Second Life. Thank you again to everyone on the Tonight Live and Treet.tv team for working so hard to put on such a professional show and the opportunity for me to participate. I had a fun time, and thank you to everyone who attended as well.
I shared some of my thoughts about my time working at Linden Lab, some simple advice for Linden Lab’s new CEO, my new gig with Reaction Grid, the state of education in virtual worlds, and the future of interconnected virtual worlds in general.
I hope I was entertaining. If anyone would like me to expand on anything I said in the interview, please leave a blog comment and I’ll happily reply.
Here’s a recording of my interview.
-John “Pathfinder” Lester
Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #33+34: Visiting “Romenna,” a Tolkien-themed 16-sim cityscape.
I’m often impressed by the things we discover in our club’s travels across the Hypergrid.
Opensim is a pioneering platform where everyone is building anew, and that pioneering spirit brings out an amazing level of creativity.
But on this particular tour, we discovered something that completely blew me away. We found a cityscape spanning 16 regions. A Tolkien-themed area called “Romenna,” created by a single artist named Nick Lassard.
Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #31+32: A Message in a Bottle for StaminaGrid
For this Sunday meeting, we made a couple very special excursions on the Hypergrid.
Instead of discovering strange new worlds and interesting new creations, we found an empty and vacant place.
So we left a message in a bottle.
Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #30: Exploring giant geometric models and mathematics
At this meeting visited the region Wizzy on ReactionGrid. At this location, Wizard Gynoid has created a giant model of the E8 Polytope, one of the most complex and elegantly beautiful geometric objects known to mathematicians.
Read on for a full transcript and photos of our adventure.
The next 4 meetings of the Hypergrid Adventurers Club will be hosted by Vanish Seriath
I’ll be offline for a week starting Jan 12. So I won’t be around to host the next four meetings of the Hypergrid Adventurers Club.
But the show must go on!
Vanish Seriath frequently attends our club meetings, and he has graciously offered to lead the next three meetings.
Be Cunning and Full of Tricks 