#ted-talks

[theskatterbrain]

On the Value of Values

On the Value of Values

Imagine you just received a job offer. It’s from a reputed corporation and comes with a fantastic compensation package, but the job itself is boring and requires you to be on the road most of the time. What would you do? For some, this would be a dream come true – “What? All that money AND I get to travel AND I don’t have to be learning all the time. Of course, I’ll take it.” For others, this…

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[novapanda07]

How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg

Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina ...

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[posts-while-high]

TED-talks while high are the best idea ever.

Me

[youthbc]

How to start a movement

With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

[ilovecrows]

John Marzluff - Crow researcher from University of Seattle

[music-is-pretty-cool-blog]

Can Music Be Medicine?

After I watched the video “Can Music Be Medicine?” by Robert Gupta, I do believe music can help people that have been impaired by disabilities (Strokes, etc..).  As Robert said, it can form new pathways in the brain and let people that can’t talk sing instead and help them talk. Music can do amazing things and help so much in the world, it can move people to do things that they usually wouldn’t do. 

[markphilswords]

TED talks represent a passing middle-brow phase

Despite the outcry over teens and texting, the Internet has been one of the largest booms in literacy, depending on how you define it. If you define literacy as not just the ability to read words, but the spread of words, and all that comes with it, ideas, culture, etc., then the Internet has been rocket fuel. This is why the bar for quality television shows have risen so much, people are overwhelmed with so much content that they can be selective.

But this also raises the bar for what is and isn’t middle-brow. The fascination with TED talks may, in retrospect, be viewed as a relic of “early” Internet, whereby the bite-sized packaging of stimulating thought-pieces filled a vacuum of the newly expanded appetite for good content. People may then quickly graduate from watching those talks to reading long-form non-fiction, where ideas can be more substantially examined. Despite all the cries of the downturn of publishing, The New Yorker readership is up, The New York Times is doing well, book sales are up, etc.

It’s like when the paperless office was supposed to be the death knell for paper. Instead, people need paper so much more than ever. Information consumption as a whole is up, but it’s just been aggregated so well, that the old way, where content hit people in the long tail of local papers or local programming, has dried up, and now the real, meaningful pillars of content will shine through.

[loveandknowledge]

Now I worked with dying people for over 40 years. I had the privilege of working on death row in a maximum security [prison] for six years. And I realized so clearly in bringing my own life experience, from working with dying people and training caregivers, that any attachment to outcome would distort deeply my own capacity to be fully present to the whole catastrophe.

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