{"id":209,"date":"2006-11-01T01:29:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-11-07T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:50:37","slug":"generosity-talk-from-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2006\/11\/01\/generosity-talk-from-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Generosity talk from 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My keynote talk \u201cAttention, please! Glow, Show and Flow\u201d at O\u2019Reilly\u2019s EuroOSCON<\/a> – European Open Source Convention – in Bruxelles in September 2006 has now been posted as an audio file<\/a> by O\u2019Reilly Networks Weekly Podcast \u201cDistributing the Future\u201d<\/a>. The title is \u201cSpirituality and Altruism\u201d.<\/p>\n

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So that was what I was talking about! I have wondered why people were so enthustiastic about the presentation and turned up in such numbers the next day when I gave another presentation<\/a> on the related theme \u201cDare, Care and Share\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nThis second talk was not a keynote but part of one of several parallel tracks, yet it attracted a fine audience, indeed. My own explanation for the interest was that I was talking about sex. But it turns out that I talked about spirituality – well, at least according to the title of the podcast.<\/p>\n

But, OK, it turns out that the spirituality<\/em> part of the podcast is actually covered by an interview with Craig Warren Smith from University of Washington. I am only involved in the altruism<\/em> part of the podcast. But still, altruism seems more noble than sex. Or does it?<\/p>\n

That, really, is the point of the talk \u2026 (and the book on which it is based, \u201cThe Generous Man: How Helping Others is the Sexiest Thing You Can Do<\/a>\"\"\u201c). A brief summary of the book is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was recently out in paperback in the US<\/a>. The also recent paperback-edition in Germany<\/a> is curiously published under a different title than the hardback<\/a>. The the original and more expensive hardback edition of the book in German is called \u201cHomo generosus\u201d:<\/p>\n

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while the less costly paperback version is called \u201c\u00dcber die Entstehung von Sex durch gener\u00f6ses Verhalten\u201d:<\/p>\n

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The German subtitle is probably the best of all the translations (and better than the original Danish one): \u201cWarum wie Sc\u00f6nes lieben und Gutes tun\u201d.
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