… is the heading on this lovely meditative post by Dave Winer. Here’s how it opens:

I’m writing this sitting in a cafe in Harvard Sq drinking coffee and enjoying the beginnning of the day. No newspaper to read, just my netbook, a net connection and my own thoughts.

Doc Searls likes to say that markets are conversations, but people are conversations too. I have no way of knowing for sure how it is for other people, but inside me is a constant back and forth chatter, with lots of different voices, each expressing opinions of minor and major events that take place all around us (i.e. me).

It’s all those different voices that come up with ideas, collaboratively — we’re like a 24 hour group brainstorming session…