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Many were touched by my personal story, and they shared their stories in return.
In the 1930s, Roosevelt put thousands and thousands of Americans back to work by building bridges and infrastructure and tunnels, but he also did something interesting, which was to hire a few hundred writers to scour America to capture the stories of ordinary Americans.
And the stories that were captured of his life make up one of the crown jewels of histories, of human-lived experiences filled with ex-slaves.
Anna Deavere Smith famously said that there's a literature inside of each of us, and three generations later, I was part of a project called StoryCorps, which set out to capture the stories of ordinary Americans by setting up a soundproof booth in public spaces.
What's interesting, in conversations with the founder, Dave Isay, we always actually talked about this as a little bit of a subversive project, because when you think about it, it's actually not really about the stories that are being told, it's about listening, and it's about the questions that you get to ask, questions that you may not have permission to on any other day.
And so we launched this to capture the stories from all around the world, through video, through photos, through written history, and so people's experiences on that day, which was, in fact, this huge risk for the institution to make its first move this open platform.
And we tell the stories of being inside the towers through that same audio collage, so you're hearing people literally talking about seeing the planes as they make their way into the building, or making their way down the stairwells.
Three generations ago, we had to actually get people to go out and capture the stories for common people.
Today, of course, there's an unprecedented amount of stories for all of us that are being captured for future generations.
And this is our hope, that's there's poetry inside of each of our stories.
I love stories.
How do we actually know that these sentences coming out of our mouths are real stories, you know, are real sentences?
But my biggest ask is this: You see, you're going to leave here and you're going to see some astonishing stories in the news.
We're aware of this anyway even in our common experiences or our newspaper stories of the spread of violence from fights or in gang wars or in civil wars or even in genocides.
So in my free time outside of Twitter I experiment a little bit with telling stories online, experimenting with what we can do with new digital tools.
And from those single points emanated stories.
Some of them were familiar stories.
Some of them were new stories.
And the reason why I bring up radio is that I think radio is a great example of how a new medium defines new formats which then define new stories.
And I think that we should start to see wildly new formats emerge as people learn how to tell stories in this new medium.
One writer, Hugh Howey, experimented with short stories on Amazon by releasing one very short story called "Wool."
I think that in both of these examples, you're beginning to see ways in which people are telling stories with nonfiction content that can be built into new types of fictional storytelling.
I'd pump him for information, I'm mentally scribbling notes for the stories I plan to write.
Since the time of Homer, ancient stories told of fierce warriors dwelling beyond the Mediterranean world, striking fear into the mightiest empires of antiquity.
But curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and China also featured Amazon-like warrior women.
The earliest stories of the Scythians, and Amazons, may have been exaggerated rumors.
We tell ourselves a story about other people's lives, and these stories make us feel terrible because they're designed to make us feel terrible.
They're both stories, interpretations.
So my suggestion is, turn youth into entrepreneurs, incubate and nurture their inherent innovation, and you will have more stories of flowers and Peace Parks than of car bombs and waithood.
I'm going to tell you three stories on the way to one argument that's going to tell you a little bit about how we open user-generated content up for business.
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