Sandy Berger, Jerry Brown open AO Innovation Summit

Here are a handful of photos I took tonight at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford University. First, former national security advisory Sandy Berger:

Next, Oakland Mayor, former governor and candidate for California attorney general Jerry Brown:

I spoke with Brown at the reception afterward and reminded him of the previous time we’d met nearly 17 years ago — one of the most solemn and memorable days of my life, at the funeral of Chuck Linderman (a friend of mine, a former campaign aide to Brown) on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif. He recalled the day, and we chatted briefly about blogging and his campaign for attorney general, but what he was mostly interested in was finding out more information about Skype, given the number of conference calls his campaign aides engage in. I jotted the Skype url on the back of my Ourmedia business card and gave it to him.

I’ve always admired Brown’s independent, no-nonsense style, and I’m still proud that my first-ever vote in a presidential primary was for Gov. Moonbeam. Read the essay, and Jerry Brown’s comment near the end:

“When you’re in the moment, that’s what life is all about. Chuck lived in the moment.”

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