Pop!Tech: Confidence

The chair I'm sitting in at this conference lets me watch a lot of people. There are people here doing all kinds of things -- self-promoting, flirting, looking for money or jobs or attention or praise or friendship or meaning or purpose or confirmation. You see all different kinds of nervousness and all different kinds of mechanisms to feel good or fit in or navigate the uncomfortable parts. It is fascinating, all the different ways people act in a group of strangers like this.

Of all the people onstage so far, Howard Fishman was perhaps the most naturally confident. Bob Metcalfe is pretty self-assured, too.

I'm thinking about confidence and presence and self-presentation, because I've got this great laboratory here to observe. Very interesting. When/if I learn anything, I'll share.