Hey Amir,

I'm not suggesting putting on a fake act, or moderating or dumbing down
your message at all.

What I do suggest is that you can make your communication vastly more
effective by not alienating significant chunks of your audience --
including an ex-gf of mine, who wrote be saying just that. These are
simple things to do, really: when you find you're speaking at the same
time as another guest, stop and wait for the moderator's cue; don't make
the same point twice in the same appearance; don't interrupt other guests.

I actually loved how you started the whole thing off. She asked a fairly
"blah" question and you came out like wildfire proclaiming the second
coming, that was brilliant, and the technique of getting your own
message in despite not being asked for some given response is a well
known one. To add to the short list above, there was an instance in
which you answered a different question to the one asked, without
addressing the original question at all.

If you're reading me as thinking you should take some of your heart out
of it, not at all. You've got a great heart, and if I feel can lend some
assistance to connecting yours with the hearts of others (especially via
mass media), I feel obliged to give it a try.

Peace,
Mike

On 04/08/2013 06:14 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
> Yeah cool. Write anything you think to this list.
>
> But at the end of the day, the real message comes from staying true to
> yourself. Not putting on a fake act and dressing for others. I speak
> from the heart.
>
> I'm not a politician trying to win votes, I'm a hacker spreading our
> culture and speaking directly to our guys. Our guys can see through
> any acting and it stops me connecting to them.
>
> On 07/04/13 22:10, Mike Gogulski wrote:
> > Amir, you hit a lot of the key points and hit them very well during
> > the segment. For that, congrats and thanks.
>
> > But I gotta complain, too. If I had to score your performance on
> > the show, I'd give you an A or A- for content, and an F for
> > delivery and presentation. You (and by extension us, bitcoin, the
> > whole freakin' planet, &c) would benefit massively from some
> > coaching by folks who have "done media" before, especially in the
> > political sphere, which is where you're now operating.
>
> > I hope you'll take this from me in the spirit I mean it. I'm happy
> > to provide some of that coaching myself (and explain the reasoning
> > behind it), and I think I can get a couple other people interested
> > in donating a few hours to the work as well.
>
> > Peace, Mike
>
> > On 04/06/2013 01:26 AM, Amir Taaki wrote:
> >> Thanks. There is a Bitcoin press wave going on now. Been having
> >> TV crews here all week at the squat. It's important to show good
> >> things coming out of squats to the world.
> >>
> >> It's a victory. I'm at the end of the hacker spectrum. Even in
> >> hacker circles I'm an extremist. They've put me right in the
> >> centre of mainstream.
> >>
> >> When things like this happen, you know our culture has made it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/04/20134572639241668.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/silk-road-online-drug-marketplace
> >>
> >>
> http://news.sky.com/story/1071652/cyber-currency-surge-amid-eurozone-crisis
> >>
> >>
> >>
> Lots more print stuff and more coming too.
> >>
> >> On 04/04/13 19:56, Jaromil wrote:
> >>> Dear comrades, Salam aleikum.
> >>>
> >>> I'm writing you from a balcony above the noisy streets of Cairo
> >>> a few hundred meters away from the square where 5 years ago, on
> >>> the 6 of april, the so called Arab Spring started boiling what
> >>> would become the revolution that took over the regime of
> >>> Mubarak in Egypt.
> >>>
> >>> Today I've entered my room in a demure and rather anonymous
> >>> building downtown to switch on the TV on Al-Jazeera
> >>> international right on time to see, to my surprise, Amir
> >>> showing off his brand new furry mohawk in an episode dedicated
> >>> to Bitcoin. Wonderful! it just felt like in a movie, close to
> >>> surrealism, to be listening to it right from here, at the heart
> >>> of the Egyptian revolutionary movement.
> >>>
> >>> What a hit! to see my bro' carrying his passionate message with
> >>> such impetus and so well, on such an important worldwide
> >>> channel. Clearly he is not mistaken when he states that we are
> >>> facing a global movement of change, riding its wave.
> >>>
> >>> Just two days ago I was presenting Bitcoin to an interested but
> >>> still small audience here in Cairo, among them some hackers and
> >>> students and random Google fans, who are starting to understand
> >>> what's next. Its all happening so fast now, tight in the days
> >>> in which Wikileaks is releasing the files on the offshore
> >>> sociopathic finance oligarcs, right in the days preparing the 5
> >>> years anniversary of the revolution that shook north Africa, a
> >>> culture so far from ours, yet so close in idealism I belive.
> >>>
> >>> So this is a heads up from Cairo and an idealist call: lets
> >>> think about using the wealth we are rising with Bitcoin not
> >>> just to grow it in our pockets, but to help and support the
> >>> revolutionary movement of the Arab Spring. I'll be meeting
> >>> people around here in the next days and conspiring about
> >>> visions and possibilities. If you like, since my funds are
> >>> rather limited, please contact me privately if you are
> >>> intentioned to donate some Bitcoins to the cause, since I'd
> >>> like to share some to the good people here, see if we can
> >>> organize some international meeting soon and what not.
> >>>
> >>> Moreover, it will be my pleasure to soon share with you an
> >>> academic article that I've recently written also as part of my
> >>> Ph.D. thesis, about the social and political background of
> >>> Bitcoin, its history and its possible future. Let's keep in
> >>> touch, so far so close, for our planetary coevolution.
> >>>
> >>> ciao
> >>>
> >>
>
>
>
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