Reflections
A room from Airchat's 2023 version, recorded as a video. The room's name is the title; the transcript below follows the video, and every time in it plays the video from that point.
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0:00 Another point might be that when you're talking to strangers, it doesn't matter how many there are, and if you consider it like a one-time event, so you may, right or wrong, assume that you never see them again. So you don't care. But here in air chat, you just keep on bumping into these same people over and over again. So you have different expectations due to that. Kickstarting the inspiration, that's usually the heavy lifting. You have to get some inspiration or impetus to start working, and then you can download the package and put it in the best shape and form you can when the package is ready. You cannot ship it before it's ready, but you should not start before it's ready. And then you just print it out. If you put in too many specialists with a similar kind of a background, you usually start to get similar kind of solutions, and things become impossible.
0:55 Because there is no range. So if you throw in people with different backgrounds, experiences, and they may be even not specialists in the field, but they have other qualities which can improve and contribute, you may start to get silly questions, really basic questions, which are really fundamental. And this may lead to new discoveries, opportunities, possibilities, unlocking the impossible, to become possible. And this is really nicely described in the book, if I remember correctly.