a clay tech open air berlin aug. 2013
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LESSONS FROM MISFITS Alexa Clay | Presentation at Tech Open Air
No monopoly on innovation
What do pirates, terrorists, computer hackers, and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley? Innovation. The Misfit Economy is a book exploring
emerging forms of underground innovation happening in the informal and black market
economies.
Underground innovators today
Types of misfits
A “factory for misfits.” A curriculum for pop-up education seeking to bring insights from the underground world.
Teachings: -Art of Hustle -The Entourage Effect -Copycat Etiquette -Guerilla Governance -Gaming the System -Spirit of Informality -Rabbit holes
The Entourage EffectLess than two blocks from Hemingway's table, what was left of Charles Baudelaire and Guy de Maupassant lay beneath stone memorials in the Montparnasse cemetery. A five-minute walk down Boulevard Raspail, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas were
planning their Christmas meal. Close by Ezra Pound was reading through a bit of manuscript left him by a young friend with exhausted nerves, Tom Eliot, on his way to a rest cure in
Lausanne. Eventually Eliot would call it The Waste Land. Less than two blocks from the Hemingway's hotel, James Joyce was dressing to attend a party at Sylvia Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where he would celebrate the final revisions to his
manuscript Ulysses.
Entourage – Rules to Live By
+ De-couple your ego & your entourage + Foster a feeling+ Set boundaries + Chill & stay informal
Leading nowhere
Redeploying Misfits
Redeploying Misfits
Real Hustlers
A reality show where streetwise hood entrepreneurs pitch business plans to a panel of underground dons.
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
- Jim Morrison
Unleash your inner misfit
My misfit experiment
Thank You!
Join us: www.misfiteconomy.com
@misfiteconomy@alexaclay