{"id":2837,"date":"2012-01-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fpisani.wpengine.com\/journal-why-i-left-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T08:00:00","slug":"journal-why-i-left-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francispisani.net\/en\/journal-why-i-left-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal \u2013 Why I left San Francisco &#8211; Francis Pisani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ob-sections\">\n<div class=\"ob-section ob-section-html\">\n<p>Winch 5, my global tour of innovation, is actually the natural continuation of the 16 years I spent in Mexico, and the 14 years in California after that. In each case I was looking for things that could change the world. Maybe I got stuck in a May \u201968 mentality\u2026 even if I realize that people\u2019s hopes, and the means and tools to achieve them, have changed.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>I chose Mexico in 1980 so I could follow the ruptures in Central America started by the insurrection in Nicaragua (when the Sandinistas were still somewhat democratic). I moved to San Francisco in 1996 to cover the digital revolution.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Then, after 30 years, I returned to France without even really realizing it, and not at all how it happens in books. It was time to close out a personal and professional cycle. And then \u2013 it took me time to realize this \u2013 to start another. In the same vein, but with a different horizon. It was a difficult transition.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>For years, mainly between 1990 and 2007, every time I went back to France I felt \u201clike a foreigner in a country whose language I spoke well.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0At least, that\u2019s what I used to say jokingly to my friends \u2026 but also because that\u2019s how I felt having to do a double-take at a new currency that I didn\u2019t recognize, or when I had to ask newspaper sellers the price of the Le Monde or Lib\u00e9ration \u2013 looking at me like I was making fun of them.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>All of this greatly amused me, and I had no real intention to return (from Mexico where I was still young, from San Francisco where I envisioned myself crossing the Rio Bravo rather than the Atlantic). I didn\u2019t see the evolution as it was occurring.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Food should have been a sign. I found myself eating more and more Mediterranean<\/strong>.\u00a0 Tomatoes with dill and oregano for breakfast, fresh goat cheese or Greek yogurt, olive oil. Without realizing it, I started accepting \u2013 and searching out \u2013 more invitations to come speak at conferences between Paris and Madrid, with a big weakness for Seville and Malaga, where I direct the program in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pcd.unia.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Praxis and Cultures<\/a>\u00a0(translation of digital literacy).<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Then, in 2010, Vincent Giret, who was the editor at that time, asked me to do a show on France 24. I worked with Jean Bernard Cadier, who came up with the title: Technophile (in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/category\/tags-auteurs\/francis-pisani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/fr\/category\/tags-auteurs\/francis-pisani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French<\/a>). After starting at 4 minutes (one Tuesday in March they told me we were going live Friday \u2013 that was my first TV experience), we bumped the length up to 9 minutes. We lasted until December when we fell victim to the war between bosses and the Stalinian purges.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>I really enjoyed working with Jean Bernard \u2013 a real pro, the kind you never stop learning from. It\u2019s thanks to his curiosity and desire to always serve the public that I initially got interested in the development of technologies in Africa. A real step for me who, from San Francisco, had a tendency to dismiss even what was going on in Europe.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>I rediscovered the joy of covering ITC, and the perspective of a new angle<\/strong>.\u00a0 The adventure was sufficiently inspiring\u00a0 and the return to Paris positive enough that one day I realized that \u201cmy butt refused to move,\u201d to rejoin the still-official bosom of my family in Silicon Valley. Far from a rational and premeditated decision, I was undergoing some sort of subconscious decision-making.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>I was in the middle of a separation<\/strong>. It was cordial and civilized, tender even. It corresponded with the mutual recognition that the phase of our lives spent together was ending. It unfolded without any yelling, not even the smallest argument. No doubt this why I found myself, without realizing it, in a hole I hadn\u2019t seen myself slide into. A depression (in the literal sense) over the loss of the family unit, and of the perspectives gained through a life with Xochitl Casta\u00f1eda, an extraordinary woman dedicated to<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/hia.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">migrant health<\/a>\u00a0in the United States\u2013 regardless of their legal status. But the hardest thing to overcome was, as always, a question of survival. The idea of spending old-age alone, or, in any case, being alone as my 70th birthday approached.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Finding myself familyless in San Francisco where, really, I don\u2019t have tons of friends, seemed impossible to me. So the reflex was a strange return to origins, as I never really saw myself moving permanently back to Paris, convinced as I was that my life was somewhere else. There I was one day, without really having decided, without a house, without retirement. With life-long family and a few old friends.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>On the job side, I was starting to bet bored in the San Francisco Bay Area (it\u2019s possible!), while I found more dynamic geeks and entrepreneurs than I\u2019d ever imagined in Paris and Madrid.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>To be continued\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winch 5, my global tour of innovation, is actually the natural continuation of the 16 years I spent in Mexico, and the 14 years in California after that. In each case I was looking for things that could change the world. 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J\u2019en a rapport\u00e9 des enseignements sur les meilleures fa\u00e7ons de la rendre possible, de l'encourager, de pr\u00e9parer individus, entreprises et nations \u00e0 participer ainsi \u00e0 la construction de leur propre futur. Une aventure fascinante qui m\u2019a permis de rencontrer des gens audacieux, dot\u00e9s d\u2019une grande intelligence ou d\u2019un grand c\u0153ur. Parfois les deux ensembles. Je donne r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement conf\u00e9rences et s\u00e9minaires sur ce sujet dans certaines entreprises fran\u00e7aises de poids : Bouygues Telecom, CapGemini, L'Or\u00e9al, SFR, SNCF, entre autres ainsi que dans des forums moins prestigieux mais dans lesquels l\u2019assistance est passionn\u00e9e Convaincu que l\u2019am\u00e9lioration de nos villes et de la d\u00e9mocratie locale est un enjeu technologique et social majeur, je viens de me lancer dans une nouvelle s\u00e9rie d\u2019enqu\u00eates \u2013 un tour du monde en plusieurs \u00e9tapes nomm\u00e9 Participolis - sur les villes intelligentes ou qui s\u2019efforcent de l\u2019\u00eatre : 20 villes entre janvier 2014 et avril 2015. Je le con\u00e7ois comme une tension constante entre deux p\u00f4les d\u2019un m\u00eame probl\u00e8me : CitySmarting ou l\u2019effort pour rendre les villes plus intelligentes gr\u00e2ce, notamment aux technologies de l\u2019information et Participolis, le fait qu\u2019un meilleur futur pour nos villes ne peut \u00e9merger que de notre participation \u00e0 leur conception et \u00e0 leur gestion. Mes articles et chroniques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s par plus de 100 m\u00e9dias sur quatre continents dont Le Monde, El Pa\u00eds (Madrid), Reforma (Mexico), The Next Web (Amsterdam) et Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo (Br\u00e9sil). J'enseigne aussi \u00e0 la Paris School of International Affairs de l'Institut d'\u00c9tudes Politiques de Paris et \u00e0 la WebSchoolFactory. J\u2019ai donn\u00e9 des cours \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Berkeley et \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Stanford. Je participe en temps qu\u2019expert au r\u00e9seau Netexplo. J\u2019ai publi\u00e9 plusieurs livres dont Comment le web change le monde, l'alchimie des multitudes (Pearson) avec Dominique Piotet (2008 et 2011). Quand je ne suis pas en vadrouille autour du monde, je vis entre Paris, Barcelone et Mexico. Mais toujours je suis int\u00e9ress\u00e9 par vos commentaires, critiques et suggestions. 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