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The first day of Myngle

Eye of wisdomThis is the first post for Myngle.

Not really the first day, but we’ll go back to the past in the next postings and follow the road that brought us here.

Even a marathon starts with just one step.

One night I knew it was there.

It was just an idea, but already more than that. One of those ideas you know are already materializing before you dare speaking it loudly, because in your head you are already somewhere else, further in time; maybe months later.

And you observe the idea became real.

So, now the question is:

What do an Italian, 2 Brazilians, 2 Dutch, a Belgium, a few Chinese, and a bunch of other people have in common?

The answer is: MYNGLE.

So, now, let me present myself first.

How should I describe ‘me’?

I could use some of those ‘bibliographic’ data as name, family, job.

Not relevant.

I could use a psychographic profile, so that you can compare it to yours and say: we are not the same. Or maybe we are.

No, I’ll use one of my preferred sentences:

‘To do what you like, is freedom. To like what you do, is happiness.’

It seems one of those stereotypes of limited value, but I think the location and occasion when I’ve read it for the first time makes it special. Then you know that it is beyond its face value. Like many things.

Location: Hotel Bob Marley, Muktinath, Himalaya 3.700m. Toilet (yes! it was in on the toilet’s door. You can find wisdom where you least expect it!)

So, this is me.

And this is why Myngle.

Beyond geographical borders.

Countries, people.

Myngle is fun, social, breaking all barriers, allowing being equal while accepting diversity.
Learning from it.

The world can be a beautiful place…

I know, I haven’t told you much. But that was the intention.

You’ll get it next time. So I know you’ll come back.

I promise: next posting will be fun. 😉

Marina

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6 Comments on “The first day of Myngle”

  1. The man with the 1000 faces Says:

    I think this is fun already. I am curious to see what Myngle is all about.

  2. Denitsa Says:

    Well indeed you didn’t say much, but you succeeded in communicating what is most important – the spirit of Myngle! After talking to you (on that very very hot day) and some of the others I already have a feeling about what is to come.. but there is one question I always forget to ask. How did you come up with the name? I somehow feel there is a story behind it and it must be as much worth telling as the story of your preferred sentence 🙂

    (for that matter, I have written on the back of my business cards that I enjoy doing impossible things…)

  3. marina Says:

    What’s in a name…?

    Hi Denitsa, yes, you are right.
    There is a lot is in a name.

    Myngle is about people. Everyday people; like you and me.
    It is about the fact that we are a few billions people in this world, each one individual, but if we all act only as individual and ignore all those others around us, we loose a lot of what is the taste in life.

    So Myngle is about sharing, communicating, getting to know each other, learning from each other. It is about communicating with each other. Communicating with a friend or with a total stranger, communicating for work, for pleasure or just for fun.

    One system that allows us to do so, the same system could also be the barrier: language.

    “Language: a system used to facilitate communication.
    As of early 2007, there are 6,912 known living human languages.
    The exact number of known living languages will vary from 5,000 to 10,000, depending on the precision of one’s definition of “language”, and in particular according to how one treats dialects. There are also many dead or extinct languages.”
    (this is ‘borrowed’ from wikipedia, so I do not ‘own’ the merits for it)

    Quindi se io ti dico che Myngle e’ per comprendersi, per poter avere contatto con altre persone. Forse tu capisci. O forse no.

    Maybe you’ve understood me. Maybe not.

    That is why.

  4. marina Says:

    OK, this is the ‘nice story’.
    Now the truth.

    Do you believe in coincidences?

    A few months ago, we were brainstorming with the team on the right name to give to our dream. The team was, at that time, scattered on 4 continents: Europe, US, South America, Asia (we are missing 2 continents here… ).
    We very diligently had done our homework, and come up with names and attributes that would represent what we had in mind. Amongst 100 other things this name needed to be, it had to be a .com, as we the world is our playfield.

    Well, one by one, our ideas were killed in the inevitable .com check. Godaddy.com was our enemy there, as every name we typed was reported as registered from someone else.

    A bit discouraged, but not giving up, I decided to look at the names aftermarket, to see if some ideas were coming up.
    And there it was! Just the one we have been searching for.
    Expiring within less then 5 minutes, no bid on it. Just the first on the list.

    Coincidences are like flowers on a field just waiting to be picked up.
    (this one is mine, so I can get credits for it)

    2 days later someone mailed me asking whether he could buy Myngle domain from us…

    No way… 🙂

  5. sam Says:

    err .. so is myngle a facebook with a language translator pluggin?

  6. marina Says:

    No…

    Try again…

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