A few months ago, I was in Silicon Valley, doing a little 10min...

A few months ago, I was in Silicon Valley, doing a little 10min talk with some folks from O’Reilly (Books), re: Big Data. Part of the fun of doing these kinds of things is simply meeting these incredible people that they— Strata, in this case— bring together. One guy came up to me and told me how much skating had influenced him, then went on to say how he developed an algorithm to search through the various levels of security clearances for the (alphabet) Agencies… In some way, it seems nearly every other person you meet has some particular kind of genius to them. The two that took care of me, Ben Lorica & Roger Magoulas, had that in spades, and even beyond that, they’re as fun and humble as people come. Anyway, thanks to them, I was able to talk about the nature of practice, in terms of how we— as skaters— lock in on hard tricks. I can’t get over how well that crowd— so far from skate culture— appreciated and seem to relate to what we do.
- Rodney Mullen