I’ve been tagged by James Cherkoff to post about 8 things you might not know about me. Thanks for the invite James. It made me think…
1. I grow my own tomatoes and courgettes – which are by far the most easy things to grow, I know - but give me time and I can show I have real green hands
2. I almost ended up as a professional musician flute player – life would have been different. After university I actually used to play in an Irish folk band . My PR people told me to take that off my Bio because not cool and hip. What the heck do they know about modern Irish folk?
3. When I was young I spent most of my free time & summers on a farm next doors. I love riding tractors – or was that just a kids’ thing ? If we would have more than one life I’d be a farmer in my second one.
4. I have been in the military service as a Lieutenant. It was a great waste of time but at least I have some nice memories and learned something I use every day: sometimes it is better to just shut up and swallow the shit. And: no you don’t have to have an opinion every single minute of the day.
5. I do love cooking. And I do clean the kitchen afterwards. A B&B in my third life ?
6. I hate making choices. I just want A regular coffee at Starbucks, A pair of running shoes, A camera that shoots pictures – why do we need to make 30 different choices for everything we do in life?
7. I try to break the rules & conventions in discrete ways. So let’s stick to 7 random things instead of 8.
Now I’d really like to know more about you guys -and forgive me when you’ve done this a couple of times before- Kris Hoet because even if we’re colleagues and I know about some of his more private side he always has that mysterious side of him, danah boyd, Valeria Maltoni, Charlene Li, Jackie Huba because you’re the ladies I do enjoy reading on a regular basis, David Armano, Jaffe Juice, Alain Thys, well exactly for the same reason – but not ladies obviously 
Thank you for the tag and for the vote of confidence, Marc. I’m enjoying your thinking as well so it’s reciprocal. If you read me regularly, you probably saw my post “Revealing Yourself to Others.” That was my 4 x 4 – so 2 times 8 : )
I’d like to add that my joy is to give back to my profession, to energize my team, to inspire insights that lead to ideas that lead to action, and to connect people. It’s second nature for me – so maybe that is my second life.
Talk about some things I really didn’t know about you Marc
I’ve posted once on the ‘five things you probably don’t know about me’ here: http://crossthebreeze.com/2006/12/18/five-things-you-probably-dont-know-about-me/
And updated it a bit when I got tagged for ‘eight random things’: http://crossthebreeze.com/2007/07/29/eight-random-things/
All out of secrets and mysteries now
Hi Marc
Thanks for what is probably the hardest writing assignment in the existence of the futurelab blog (he said with a painful grin)
I’m doing quite a few airplanes next week, so if my batteries don’t run out, I should revert in a few days.
Have a nice w/e !
Alain
@ Valeria – I must have missed that post ! thanks for pointing that out – I had no intention to push you over the edge. By the way you don’t sound too Italian to me in your potable marketing speech. If our voice expresses so much of whom we are then I’d say that sounds extremely nice & positive
Enjoy all the flight & travel
@ Kris – come on Buddy – you and your mustang is old stuff. one juicy thing I don’t know dont know, a fresh one for 2008
@ Alain – thanks, it’s not that hard an assignment, shall I make you work on one of our real life business issues