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Lawrence Lessig on Hillary Clinton

Monday, February 4th, 2008

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Whose needs does the death sentence meet?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I’m truly thrilled to add Prof. Larry Marshall to the next Heather Gold Show: My Needs/ Your Needs.

Larry was one of my professors in law school and was the driving force behind getting Rolando Cruz off of death row and legal work and advocacy that eventually led Gov Ryan of Illinois to commute the the sentences of all prisoners on death row before he left office. 

He’s a passionate teacher and a man of impeccable integrity and I only wish I’d listened to him more when I was in law school. But then I might be a lawyer today.

I am really honored by the killer group we have on the show and I know they will spark an excellent conversation for us all.

“Serving is different from helping. Helping is based on inequality.”

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

A brilliant piece by Dr. Rachel Remen.

There is a distance between ourselves and whatever or whomever we are fixing. Fixing is a form of judgement. All judgement creates distance”

My father is a doctor. I learned about fixing first-hand when I was dropped off a finishing school as a young teen to be fixed up. At that age I wasn’t able to see to the intention underneath. The helplessness and fear that can lead one to fix. If you grow up learning that fixing is a form of love, you can experience it that way. I too am all too tempted to think I can fix almost any problem or person.

Who tries to fix you? Who or what do you try to fix?

My Needs / Your Needs is the theme for The Heather Gold Show this month. Join us live for the conversation in San Francisco on February 11th.

Do you really care who solves our problems? Beyond the Binary.

Monday, January 21st, 2008

I don’t. To me this was the entire point of registering Independent. At the time I thought: “Damn, if the Democratic party can’t get a liberal, Jewish, Canadian queer chick like me to register Democrat, they’re in trouble.”But this point, of focussing on our shared problems and doing things to make them better entirely eludes Stanley Fish, who blogged today Against Independent Voters.In his lofty NYT estimation, Independents don’t really want to stand for anything except avoid politics which we hate.  (more…)

My Needs / Your Needs

Friday, January 18th, 2008

The next THGS theme is Service, or My Needs / Your Needs. GuestJeff Veen is puzzled this tension as it relates to making stuff (in his case web design)–how do you have the humility to serve others (which he thinks make good web design) and satisfy yourself?

Our second guest will probably be a wonderful erotica writer, poet and Intersex activist and our third will hopefully be someone who has dedicated their life to serving others. 

Live Show: Monday February 11th 7:30pm. Buy tix or bake (email subvert at the same word dot com). 

Service is, to me, about meeting a need. What is it to you?   

Anyone know a great nun?

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

I’m working on the next Heather Gold Show. The theme? My Needs / Your Needs. We’re talking about service.

Jeff Veen says the best web designers have to have empathy in order to serve the users needs rather than their own. But what about the creator? 

I just got married and it seems like a major life commitment to the conundrum of meeting my own needs and my partner’s too.  It seems to provide a solution too, but it’s not one I can yet articulate.

Know someone great who’s committed to the service of others?    

Where is Home? (Audio Podcast)

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Heather conversates with  the Emmy-winning, formerly homeless  Tanene Allison, digital nomad Ben Cerveny, therapist and Columbian emigrant German Walteros, and you. Is your home created by geography, biology, language, something or someone else? In a global era, where do we belong most? Listen to the entire 90-minute show.

As always, we encourage you to participate in the conversation. If you have comments or feedback about what you heard or saw on the show, please feel free to blog, twitter, YouTube or otherwise express yourself and let us know in the comments. We’re listening.

Earnestness (audio podcast)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Heather mixes Lawrence Lessig, comedian Aundre the Wonderwoman, marketer Deb Schultz and the “audience” about Earnestness in Politics. Is it possible? What about earnestness at work, in the corporate environment?

Listen to the full 90 minute show.

Pre-show thoughts: Lessig on Corruption

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

This is a Larry’s alpha version of a talk on his new project on corruption.  It’s an hour long, very interesting and touches on impeachment, authority and culture. He’ll be discussing the project on corruption at The Heather Gold Show this Friday. Buy tix for this Friday’s show on Earnestness. 

The Heather Gold Show: DIY

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

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Buy tix for next show The instructables folks add a lot to the DIY conversation, whipping out their lasercut laptops, delighting MAKE founder Dale Dougherty and the rest of us. Featuring ikea hacks.

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