{"id":1055,"date":"2012-10-22T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2012-10-22T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T23:35:36","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e15-places-are-people-with-ben-casnocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E15: Places are People with Ben Casnocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1056\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"casnocha\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/casnocha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in San Francisco&#8217;s South Beach with entrepreneur, author, blogger, traveler, and learner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/casnocha.com\/blog\">Ben Casnocha<\/a>. His latest book, co-written with Reid Hoffman, chairman of LinkedIn, is <em>The Start-Up of You<\/em>. They discuss the advantages of hanging an IKEA world map on the wall; his <a href=\"http:\/\/casnocha.com\/2012\/08\/reflections-and-impressions-from-a-10-day-meditation-course.html\">ten days of silent meditation<\/a>\u00a0and the feeling of enlarged thumbs that resulted; the San Francisco Bay Area&#8217;s convergence of Californian spirituality and Californian technological intensity; the three Californias: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and everything else; &#8220;NorCal&#8221; pride and State of Jefferson stickers; being the average of the five people you spend the most time with, and how that got him involved in technology startups to begin with; how where you physically live now matters both more\u00a0<em>and<\/em> less than it used to (and who still lives virtually on Livejournal); how loyalty now extends horizontally to your network rather than vertically to your company, and how your identity now comes before your role as an organizational component; his lifelong habit of reaching out to interesting people, and how it differs from the standard sleaziness of &#8220;networking&#8221;; his visits to Detroit and Athens, and how those cities may have strained his appreciative thinking muscles; his interest in underrated and underdiscussed places as well as people, such as those in South America; his adoption of &#8220;home bases&#8221; around the world, be they in San Francisco, Santiago, Zurich, or Tokyo; the pronunciation of Tegucigalpa; the loneliness he sees deep in the eyes of people who declare themselves &#8220;nomadic&#8221;; the necessity of acting consistently on curiosity, and of cultivating both a highly technical and a highly nontechnical mind; whether moving to a city means moving to randomness; and his sensory-deprivation experience floating in a saltwater pod.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e15-places-are-people-with-ben-casnocha\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e15-places-are-people-with-ben-casnocha\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in San Francisco&#8217;s South Beach with entrepreneur, author, blogger, traveler, and learner\u00a0Ben Casnocha. His latest book, co-written with Reid Hoffman, chairman of LinkedIn, is The Start-Up of You. They discuss the advantages of hanging an IKEA world map on the wall; his ten days of silent meditation\u00a0and the feeling of enlarged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}