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Video Everywhere at Inbound Marketing Summit #IMS09
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Fun Retort to @GarryTan
Garry Tan, co-founder of Posterous, lamented this evening that his rights were being deminished because states have equal representation in the Senate. He thinks it's unfair and that the 200+ year old constition that created the system may lack relevance today.
I thought it would be fun to carry the debate over to Posterous. I like Garry and would have enjoyed being in the bar having this back and forth over a beer but this will have to do.
First, the reason why states have equal representation in the Senate:
- The United States is a union of States, not citizens, each of which has its own constitution and elected goverment. When you were granted admission into the union you were given two seats at the table. BTW: Garry's point about things that were set down in the olden days no longer being applicable might be true of California having so much political power. We admitted the state into the union back in 1850, maybe we should rethink that proposition and split it into a bunch of smaller states. Why not? I mean, my state Massachusetts was at the table to start this whole deal. I let you in the club and now you want to talk smack about your rights? How about you focus on running your state before you start running your mouth?
- As Garry mentioned, to protect minority rights. Avoid heavily populated states from forcing less populated states to abide by their will.
- The Senate ratifies or rejects treaties. Kind of a big deal for a state to have the power to bind other states who may have fewer people but just as much if not more at stake in the outcome.
And then there's the other stuff:
- So, you have a state that occupies more land mass, has an artificially inflated population due to lax imigration, and a federally subsidized mass irrigation project that made once unihabitable land (Southern CA) livable. What does that mean? If people in Arkansas start breeding like crazy over the next 20 yrs are you going to give up one of your Senate seats to them?
- Is population the only criteria worthy of consideration? What about intellectual contribution? New England has 4 Ivy League schools and MIT to boot but our states are small. Should this resource be underrepresent just because another state has figured out how to have more people within its borders? What about states with abundant natural resources? Should the people who live there be at the mercy of CA?
- Doesn't an equal distrution of Senate seats offer a check and balance within the legistlative branch? Congressional terms only last 2 years. Any jackass can get elected to Congress. Have you seen some of the meatheads in the House?
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While we're at it, who are these guys?
Amy has had these for years. She thinks they were from a cartoon. These figures came in a cereal box.
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Anyone know the name of this character?
It not a Star Wars action figure but it's from the same general era.
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Relevancy and Networking Events: @OpenCoffee is for Entrepreneurs and Investors
A couple of weeks ago I went on a mini rant about how no one likes "the smartest guy in the room." It proved to be a good topic for that day's episode of NomX3 where I explained that being the smartest guy in the room often means you fail test number two, likability, of my five fundamentals of networking.
Real quick, the five fundamentals are:- Know You
- Like You
- Trust You
- Think You're Competent
- Think You're Relevant
I ran up against the relevancy challenge this morning. I attended an OpenCoffee event which is billed as "Fellow web entrepreneurs and VCs gather once a week in Cambridge, MA to grab some coffee, free WiFi, and chat about what's new."
All the more reason I was surprised to find myself talking to people who were job hunting. I have no problem with people looking for a job at networking events, I think it's smart. I have no problem with the job hunters I met this morning, most were delightful. Heck, I may be in desperate need of a job soon myself if I don't scare up some investment capital for Tweetworks. And that brings me to the problem. These job seekers were not only at a completely irrelevant event for their needs, they were actually impeding me in my quest to get my needs met. I attended the event to meet other entrepreneurs and hopefully investors to raise capital for my business. Instead, a great deal of my morning was spent talking with people who, while nice to meet, were taking up my time inappropriately. Here's the thing, if I'm talking to a job seeker at OpenCoffee guess who I'm not talking to? That's right, investors or other entrepreneurs.Comments [0]
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