Exploring Talks that drive change
Blogs/Websites
Story of Stuff: How Things Work
Mar 1st
“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world..“
Big Think (…informed thinking)
Feb 4th
Look around Big Think to watch the interviews conducted with more than 600 experts, from hedge-fund managers to neuroscientists.
via Big Think | About Us.
What motivate an audience? A different point of view
Jan 26th
Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach.
That’s a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, his provocative and persuasive new book.
The secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
via Drive | Daniel Pink.
TED “Best of web”
Jan 24th
Everybody knows that TED is an amazing resource for great and inspring videos.
Recently they have been introducing a significant new feature on TED.com (check in the ‘Show by Event’ selector on the left, scroll down to the bottom to “Best of the Beb”).
It’s called “Best of the Web”, which it means that essentially TED has begun linking to the best talks out there that were NOT recorded at a TED event.
M.L.K. is the first one.
We’ll obviously will monitor TED best of web to discover and study inspiring talks.