These are the slides for the keynote I shared at the LinkedIn User Experience Design All Hands meeting on July 11, 2014. The "story" here is my own life, looking at how my risk-taking and use of social media have empowered me to find an authentic life. Is this a lesson to learn from as we ponder the relevance gap between formal and information learning in the U.S. today? As social becomes more integral to the workplace, can/should educators embrace social technologies to foster more authentic living in their students' lives?