1. Meet the Future You
Ideas and Upskilling

2. Myra Travin Post-Futurist
I am Myra Travin.
I think about people, their relationship to technology, and how they will co-create the future.
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3. Ideas and Execution
That Went Well

4. Session Let’s Start Here Etymology & Currency of Ideas Risk & Reward
Crazy Good Ideas
Philosophy and Values – What You Are
Upskilling Your Damn Self
5 Principles of Upskilling

5. What Are You
Let’s Start Here

6. The currency
Of the future is ideas, not technology.

7. Etymology Definition of etymology
1: the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language

8. IDEA Definition of idea 1: a formulated thought or opinion
2: whatever is known or supposed about something…a child's idea of time
3: the central meaning or chief end of a particular action or situation
4a: a plan for action : DESIGN
b: a standard of perfection : IDEAL
c: a transcendent entity that is a real pattern of which existing things are imperfect representations
5a: an entity (such as a thought, concept, sensation, or image) actually or potentially present to consciousness
b: an indefinite or unformed conception
c: obsolete : an image recalled by memory
6: Christian Science : an image in Mind
7: archaic : a visible representation of a conception : a replica of a pattern

9. Define Your Now Howdee, M87!
Ideas are concepts that exist in time. That time is NOW.
What does NOW mean to you?
Howdee, M87!

10. tHree Types of Ideas: imminent, operational & Exhausted
tHree Types of Ideas: imminent, operational & Exhausted. most people choose exhausted ideas.
Bad ideas are contagious.

11. 3 Tenures of Ideas Ideas whose time has not YET come
Ideas whose time has passed
Ideas whose time is NOW
3 Tenures of Ideas

12. So here is your Choice: Early or Late
The idea continuum is found on the standard risk deviation. High Risk = High Return.

13. Kill Your Ideas. It’s less painful than the alternative.
"I don't marry my theories, I just date them for a while." Richard Feynman
Kill Your Ideas. It’s less painful than the alternative.

14. The Key to Your success with Ideas is Timing
An idea whose time has come NOW.

15. And Deciding what you value

16. Great Ideas sound Nuts
In the beginning, if you are ahead of the curve, you are on your own.

17. Upskilling your damn Self
Let’s Get Busy

18. OMG OMG OMG
The Pace of Change is Killing ME

19. Surf that Upskill Wave Become Your Own Learning Curator
Take Your Opportunities Back

20. What’s Changed? Everything.
I Googled it.
Artificial Intelligence: 329,000,000
Kim Kardashian: 254,000,000
The only constant is change, and our capacity to take action to adapt to our environment is the key to our survival. Learning Is Survival.
What most needs to change is your idea of what you can become.

21. What is Upskilling? $41 Machine Learning & Data Course
How about Free?
What is Upskilling?
Definition – SAE Institute Upskilling is defined as “improving the skills of workers, usually through training, so that they will be better at their jobs.”

22. Upskilling prepares you to see new ideas
Get it while it’s hot, y’all.

23. The Five principles of Upskilling
Make the decision
Do Your Homework
Find a Great Mentor
Utilize Resources
Repeat

24. Hackathon Use these ideas NOW Values Timing Collaboration Risk It
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
Hackathon

25. Meet The Future YOU Curious Crazy Risky Scrappy In Alignment Upskilled
Ask Yourself: If I had no fixed points of view about the implementation of things, what magic can I create?

26. Thank You
“I believe people will create a humanistic and technological future together. Or else, we’re all dead.” No pressure.
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