What I Meant to Say at Our Ocean Greece 2024
I spoke at Our Ocean Greece 2024 yesterday. I think it went well. I had prepared remarks, but none of the other panelists were reading or using notes, so I figured neither would I. In the preceding week, I spent a good amount of time preparing for what was supposed to be a 3 minute speech followed by a panel discussion, but every panelist went well beyond their allotted time, and we never actually got to the discussion part. I spoke last -- as the least distinguished speaker -- and was thrown for a bit of a loop when the moderator asked me what was supposed to be my follow up question. Earlier in the day I was talking with my friend Sheila about our recently deceased friend Cinta Kaipat , so I started my story with her. Everything else just poured out as I thought of my friend. There were a couple of other things I wanted to say, so I'm posting my remarks here for no other reason than I spent a lot of time on them. I had wanted to get in a talking point about 50x50 and I want