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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Of the many horrifying changes that happened that day, the most sad for me is how it changed my daughter’s reality. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>We lived in North Jersey at the time (still do) and she was four years old at the time. She noticed the attack from our backroom windows (the skyline looked different, the smoke and the empty skies other than military aircraft).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Some of her friends’ parents were killed in the attack, as this is a commuting to NYC neighborhood. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>She’s known terrorism her whole life. She became an avid runner and was hit hard by the Boston Marathon attacks, in the city where she would eventually go to college. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Once in college, her roommate was from Bangledesh. And when her friend returned home for the summer, several of her close friends were killed in a Dhaka terror attack (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2016_Dhaka_attack">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2016_Dhaka_attack</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>She’ll never know a life without terrorism and the fears and uncertainty that comes with that. Not the reality I would have wanted her to have.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>_______</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Evan Schuman</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:eschuman@thecontentfirm.com" target="_blank">eschuman@thecontentfirm.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="tel:973-993-8098" target="_blank">973-993-8098</a> (voice)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Computerworld weekly columnist (Column archive: <a href="http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld" target="_blank">http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Moderator for MIT Sloan Management Review events<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Google Search: <a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman">http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman#</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="https://twitter.com/eschuman" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/eschuman</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Member, Internet Press Guild: <a href="http://netpress.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>http://netpress.org/</span></a></span></i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Phil Shapiro<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> ipg-smz <ipg-smz@netpress.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Thanks for those thoughts, Tom. From where I sit, yours are some of the wisest remarks to cross the IPG transom. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Thinking about actions each one of us can take -- one small way I'm involved in rebuilding community is via the Timebanking movement. In case you might not be familiar - Timebanks are a method for community members to work for each other -- to pull for each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Further info is at <a href="https://timebanks.org/">https://timebanks.org/</a> I'm proud to say I'm friends with the founder of this movement, Edgar Cahn,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>former speechwriter for Robert Kennedy, among other things.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><a href="https://twitter.com/edgarcahn">https://twitter.com/edgarcahn</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> And the past few days I've also been refurbishing a lovely HP laptop for one of the custodians in the building where I work.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>He has two daughters, 9 and 16. His former Windows XP laptop is being reborn as a Linux Mint laptop -- and ought to serve this<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>family for several years. His daughters might not have a MacBook Air to use -- but they're going to have a very fine laptop in their<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>hands quite soon. It's not me providing them with this gift -- it's the worldwide open source community, of which I play one small part.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> I was living and working in Arlington, Virginia, on 9/11. I remember the acrid odor of smoke from the Pentagon, two miles from where<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>I was living. A better world is within reach, but each one of us must resolve to do their part.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=zwchr></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>"thenderson" <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"ipg-smz" <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:52:14 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Ipg-smz] 9/11<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Fellow Guilders,<br><br>It's a solemn day for many of us, as we remember the beginning of the <br>madness we face even to this day.<br><br>We've probably told and retold the stories of where we were, and the <br>crazinesses that followed. The colleagues gone. Travel disrupted. Lives <br>disrupted. The buried across both the US, but especially the hundreds of <br>thousands now buried across the Middle East.<br><br>My NYC friends bore the worst of the brunt, but not exclusively, and not <br>for long.<br><br>Today, worldwide public transportation is forever changed, personal <br>privacy, dignity, and scrutiny have been nearly washed away.<br><br>Ally now fights ally, entrenched in insane military spending, bombarding <br>each other with tariffs, sanctions, and deeply divisive morass.<br><br>At home in the US, deep divisions in public opinion reveal concerted <br>efforts to continue an internal gulf, rarely bridged, and full of <br>vituperative epithet.<br><br>It's my hope that we'll learn the 9/11 lesson one day, when we look at <br>the healed scar tissue.<br><br>Peace,<br><br>Tom<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Tom Henderson<br>ExtremeLabs, Inc.<br>+1 317 250 4646<br>Twitter: @extremelabs<br>Skype: extremelabsinc<br><br><br>-- <br>Ipg-smz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org">Ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><a href="http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org">http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>--<br>Phil Shapiro, <a href="mailto:pshapiro@his.com">pshapiro@his.com</a><br><a href="http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html">http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html</a><br><a href="http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro">http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro</a><br><a href="http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html">http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html</a><br><br>"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>"Learning happens thru gentleness."<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333;background:white'>"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>