About 80 friends and fans joined me on Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of The Dance of the Possible. A launch party is a good way for me to thank all the folks who’ve helped make my 14 year, 7 book, writing career possible, and share with them in launching something new.

The book is on-sale now in Kindle and paperback, and you can read a free chapter here.

Below is a recap of the fun (including the list of topics people want me to write about in the future). Thanks to everyone who helped on launch day all around the world, with your pre-orders, tweets and FB shares!

If you came to the party – photos from the booth can be found here.

 

One of my favorite things about launch parties is the wall of suggestions, where anyone can put an idea for something I should write about on a post-it note. There were 62 of them, some wonderful, some bizarre, and some I can’t begin to explain. Here they are:

1. How to get paid to write
2. Ramen!
3. Life after Microsoft
4. Trump: is a social experiment?
5. Far right & Far left: why are they equally bad?
6. “Claustrophobia”
7. Gadzookery
8. Being Passionate without being a fanatic
9. 1972: Fuck Yes!
10. Confirmation Bias in biz vs. life
11. Being maimed
12. Mushroom hunting
13. How Pokemon GO is the most important cultural phenomenon of our time
14. Tech success without being a jerk
15. Chocolate Bacon
16. Food culture change (Food trucks)
17. Aliens
18. The etymology of corporate buzzwords
19. A layperson’s guide/book to roads/transit/transportation and how it works
20. Why business is not politics
21. NYC vs. Seattle
22. Pancakes vs. Waffles
23. Washington’s farewell address and the future of American politics
24. Magic Mike XXL
25. A mystery novel
26. Encyclopedia of life-threatening UX Failures
27. Post-fordian semiotics of post-it notes
28. Immersion in middle america
29. Self-confidence: getting, keeping, displaying
30. The singularity
31. The elusive meaning behind everything
32. Dolphin milk
33. AI
34. What if our founding fathers were secretly aliens from another planet?
35. Linguistics semiotics meaning
36. Synergy!
37. New Jersey
38. Robot ethics
39. Post-thinking
40. Napster
41. A brief history of time where you rap w/ Stephen Hawking
42. Snakes on a plane
43. Systems
44. Myers-Briggs, yo.
45. Planet of the Apes, but with the GOP
46. 50 cent’s descending career & existentialist journey
47. A “brief” history of the middle east
48. If the people faked it till they made it so can you
49. Why are people left handed?
50. My life as an introverted improvisationalist
51. Finding your inner-extrovert for introverts
52. Anything as long as it’s in 1337
53. Snuggies as formal attire
54. Body language, +1
55. Walt Disney’s cryo head
56. The ones who never succeed
57. The console wars
58. Encyclopedia of life-threatening ideas
59. Failure
60. Weird things I have encountered in my travels.
61. 3D Printing in PJs.
62. When you are a tourist and arrested in Russia

The Dance of the Possible is on-sale now in kindle and paperback, and you can read a free chapter here. Hope you check it out! Thanks.