The document discusses the need for people to focus less on bureaucracy, regulation, and control, and more on what really matters. It suggests that youth have consistently advised adults to chill out and focus on human connection instead of always inspecting and policing each other. While technology enables both freedom and control, it is up to people to emphasize the former and find ways to use information sharing to help each other wake up and be present.

2. during 20 some years of asking youth
for their advice to adults
one response was
overwhelmingly
constant..

3. during 20 some years of asking youth
for their advice to adults
one response was
overwhelmingly
constant..

4. perhaps now more than ever,
every person occupying the planet ..

5. perhaps now more than ever, as a
people occupying the entire earth,
we might take heed ..
to

6. perhaps now more than ever, as a
people occupying the entire earth,
we might take heed ..

8. we spend too much time/energy/money..
documenting
proving
presenting
impressing
validating
regulating
defending
accusing
blaming
fighting
..

9. we spend too much time/energy/money..
documenting
proving
presenting
impressing
validating
regulating
defending
accusing
blaming
fighting
..

10. there are examples all around us. striking/recent (from the internet’s own boy) is this image of
the moakley courthouse. symbolic of many admin spaces. filled with too much paper. too many
inspectors. too much inspecting.
imagine if we set all these people free.. from policy/policing/regulation..

12. we need
to let
people
know
inspecting each other
is
not
a
requirement.

13. we need
to let
people
know
it’s
not
even
of
benefit.

14. in fact
it’s
keeping
us
from
us.

16. Neil Gershenfeld talking about personal fabrication (ie: tech facilitating our whimsy/curiosity)
redefineschool.com/neil-gershenfeld/

17. imagine we focus on something better to do with our time.
something each one of us – can’t not do.
7 billion people. usefully/happily preoccupied.

18. currently we have too much..
bureaucracy
regulation
control
..
..to possibly ever get through to us.

19. currently we have too much..
bureaucracy
regulation
control
..
..to possibly ever get through to us.
let’s cut it out.
let’s cut through
to what matters.

20. currently we have too much..
bureaucracy
regulation
control
..
..to possibly ever get through to us.
let’s just cut it out.
let’s cut through
to what matters.

21. what’s
the deeper
problem
affecting
us.
all.

22. what’s
the deeper
problem
affecting
us.
all.

25. distracting us
keeping us asleep
pushing us away
from us

26. [image from 1st mtg after netmundial brazil: redefineschool.com/netmundial/ ]
perhaps..
another example of how the too big gets in the
way – how control gets in the way – even
when that’s what we’re specifically trying to
d e f u s e .
we need too big and too small. simultaneously. dancing. tech as it wants to be used.
facilitating the chaos of people literally set free. stigmergy ness.
this conversation we are seeking can now be 24/7. with 7 billion people.
let’s try that. trust that. trust us. let go of control.

28. shiny good, shiny bad,
shiny big, shiny small…
there is too much – any/every way.

29. shiny good, shiny bad,
shiny big, shiny small…
there is too much – any/every way.
but perhaps we can use that for good.
perhaps that can help us to chill.

30. shiny good, shiny bad,
shiny big, shiny small…
there is too much – any/every way.
but perhaps we can use that for good.
perhaps that can help us to chill.
we’ve made control our default.
but (now) control is impossible.

32. 1:24:00, in the internet’s own boy, Aaron was asked about how he felt the fight was going:
you know, there’s sort of these two polarizing perspectives. right. everything is great. the internet has
created all this freedom and liberty. and everything is going to be fantastic. or everything is terrible. the
internet has created all these tools for cracking down and spying and you know, controlling what we say.
and I think it’s both are true. right. the internet has done both. and both are kind of amazing and
astonishing. and which one will win out in the long run.. is up to us.
it doesn’t make sense to say oh one is doing better than the other. you know. they’re both true. and it’s up
to us which ones we emphasize and which one’s we take advantage of. because they’re both there and
they’re both always going to be there.
redefineschool.com/aaron-swartz/

33. - Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

34. perhaps what matters most is figuring out what matters most.

35. perhaps what matters most is figuring out what matters most.

36. perhaps what matters most is figuring out what matters most.
let’s focus

37. perhaps what matters most is figuring out what matters most.
let’s focus
on that.

38. chill.
catch your breath.
wake up.

39. chill.
catch your breath.
wake up.

40. [making/doing/being whatever you want]
[none of us if one of us - ness]
for
[oh the dance]
aka:

57. redefineschool.com/everyday/