Dave Morin

The fog decided not to linger today, and left us San Franciscans with a ridiculously beautiful day. I decided to go for a ride after work towards Marin county. So I headed out through the Presidio (gorgeous) and then across the Golden Gate (ubergorgeous). Right as I was falling in love with SF all over again, enjoying the absolutely epic views of the Pacific and the Bay, I pass a guy with a familiar bike outfit. I look back and it was non-other than Robin Williams.

So, I slowed down and chatted with him about the merits of living in San Francisco and doing Triathalons. I do professional photography for brightroom.com shooting triathalons and marathons on the weekends. I had photographed him a couple of months ago in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathalon, and that’s where I had recognized his jersey from. Amazing! I can’t attest more to how great this city is…you NEED to come visit

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Here’s to companies that care deeply about the environment. We only have one earth, and it’s fastly getting smaller. Soon we will live in a globalized economy with fewer barriers to trade. Companies will be global, and their actions will have global implications on our lives, our environments, the air we breath, and the water we drink.

One of my favorite people in the world, Justine Rosa, works for absurdly little money at a midtown Manhattan architecture firm. She’s an amazing Cornell-trained interior designer with a razor edge wit. She cares deeply about the environment, as she’s a fellow Montanan.

Through my conversations with her, she turned me on to Interface. One of those companies that you never think about, but they make like half the industrial carpet in the world. You can only imagine the waste involved in developing carpeting solutions. Carpet is/was completely un-recyclable. They’ve come up with some pretty awesome ideas. You can read more about it here.

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Today marks a change in the content you will begin to see in my blog. You’ll begin to see more ideas, more things to think about, more thoughts to provoke you. I believe in the free exchange of ideas, and I hope that my ideas can help you innovate and evolve in your thinking. Be it my work in the world of marketing and sales, technology, design, media, economics, and many more industries. I hope to inspire you to change the way you think everyday, to take your ideas to the top of your job, company, or industry. To inspire your mind, and intrigue your soul.

A thought for the day, to my entrepreneur friends:

“Ferdinand Porsche once said, ‘In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.’”

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Seth Godin and his team of summer interns has put together a website called ChangeThis. The site is charged with collecting emotionally thought provoking arguments on all things important to all of us. They hope that it will change the way we think, live, and communicate through “manifestos” and blogs.

A great idea. The way that we are communicating and gaining information throughout the day is evolving. Blogs are becoming a daily news source. A lot of people don’t even know what a blog is. Yet. But, here you are reading mine, and I should be reading yours. I know that I would rather read what my wonderful friends in various industries and places have to say about their day to day operations rather than the post-filtered, sliced and diced media view on America. This movement is a good one.

Check out ChangeThis, subscribe, and listen to what some of the great authors in the country have to say in their own words, without censor. It may piss you off, it may make you happy. Either way, it will make you think.

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Coffee on Union. Pasta on the sidewalk cafes of North Beach. Dancing till 4am in the Mission. Sitting on the cliffs of the Marin headlands looking at the Golden Gate. The ever present fog. Shopping in Union Square. Kite boarding in the Marina. Living in Cow Hollow. And, my current absolute favorite part of San Francisco, hearing the foghorns as the ships pull out of the Bay as I fall asleep.

This city is wonderful. These reasons are only a few of the reasons that have made it wonderful in the first couple weeks of life here. San Francisco is truly one of the greatest cities in the world. We’ve got a 5th bedroom, and you are invited. If you’ve never been here, or if you have, you know what I am talking about. Come visit! We’d love to see you.

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