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Trust your community

by tdhurst · 2 comments

Not everything needs to or should be recorded. Not everything great needs to be put on YouTube, sent to 12seconds or recorded at all.

Jose Gonzalez and Bill Binder taught me that today. Once you step away from what’s happening to record it, you lose a sense of what is happening. You’re no longer in the moment, but always one step behind what is happening. You lose out.

Stop analyzing what’s happening right now. Stop taking a step back to assess every situation and just dive in. Stop worrying about what you look like and just trust that what you’re doing is right. There’s not a damn thing you can do about it in the moment, so let it go. Trust your community to lead.

Temporary experiences can build permanent community, but only if you let yourself live in the moment. Only if your trust the feeling you’re a part of.

In fact, I’m missing out right now because I’m writing this post. You should have been at Scottsdale Camp.

Tagged as: bills, binders, community, happening, jose gonzalez, moments, online social networking, real-time web, recording, scottsdalecamp, social media, torch theater, trust, trusts, twitter, web 2.0

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  • http://PhantasmagoricRadio.wordpress.com Tim

    Do you think it's possible to still be in the moment WHILE recording it in some way? What if the moment included the act of recording; such as an ideas that comes to you that you decide must be written as it comes?

    Either way, I agree and like to take time to not record things and appreciate the unrecorded value of them.

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