Thom Singer, CSP 🌟

Keynote Speaker & CEO at Austin Tech Council. I am seeking real collaboration . (I have dual citizenship-US & Ireland).

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

I have been writing and speaking about the power of human engagement for 15 years - now is the most important time for “Community, Collaboration, and Conversations”. Industry associations have a key role in figuring an antidote to loneliness.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

If losing is no longer a stigma… if what the asshats think of you doesn’t matter… it is freedom.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

@Jason_A_Scharf A one-year Austin-to-SF stat is interesting, but incomplete. Austin was never only a pandemic story. The ecosystem was decades in the making, and for years the migration flow went strongly the other direction. Without whole story anyone can craft click bait headlines.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

@EricFinnigan A one-year Austin-to-SF stat is interesting, but incomplete. Austin was never only a pandemic story. The ecosystem was decades in the making, and for years the migration flow went strongly the other direction. Austin is still growing and filled with people making waves in tech.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

@EricFinnigan Austin was never just a “remote-work darling”. For years, people moved from SF to Austin in large numbers. A one-year reverse stat is not meaningless, but without that larger frame it is just headline bait.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

Lawyers.... your pipeline does not get a summer vacation. https://t.co/yOt5fC9CiO #lawfirm #lawyerlife #attorney #legalmarketing

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

Lots of reports of passport exit lines taking hours in Lisbon airport… but took 4 minutes at 11:30 am on Sunday.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

When you look down on people not like you - you most likely don't know you are doing it.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

Are people getting more rude and pushy on airplanes? Can society ever be nice?

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

Make social media social again.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

5,000 views. Eleven likes. That’s not connection. That’s a one-way mirror.
We’ve become efficient strangers. Time to be a deliberate human. https://t.co/xaKTg2KJem

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

@prioritypasscom I called and figured it out

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@prioritypasscom tying to activate app since don’t have card anywhere and keep error that says “error on our side”

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

Communities do not grow stronger by accident. They grow stronger when people know the story, join the story, and help write the next chapter.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

Technology and productivity has led many people to be “efficient strangers“… The antidote for this is to be a “deliberate human”.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” -- John Wooden

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

I just overheard a young guy say to the person he was talking to at Starbucks—- “character is second to reputation and fame and money”. Nope.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

People tend to make up parts of the story of another person is they do not know it. I am learning to listen and ask more questions rather than assume.

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

There is arrogance and then there are asshats. It ain’t arrogant if it’s true- so I can be cool with a successful person who is arrogant. But if you are an asshat that is just you. (And you know it).

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

“People with people skills will find themselves at a premium in the future” - via Blake Holman at Innotech Austin. @InnoTech_

[Thom Singer, CSP 🌟 @thomsinger]

There are lots of reason to find the negative or say “no”. What is you looked for ways to say yes?