John Cleese – A Lecture on Creativity
Awesome! Yes, space, time, and playfulness are key. You cannot do something new if you are afraid of being wrong or it not working on the first attempt. Creativity involves taking risks. No risks, no...
View ArticleEducation Entrepreneurs: (meme image)
(A follow up to last post on Salman Khan) If you use Facebook, you’ve probably seen the “What My Friends Think I Do” storyboard meme circulating. Here is one for Education Entrepreneurs as I recently...
View ArticleAdora Svitak talks at Google Big Tent
Past TEDtalker, Adora Svitak, shares her thoughts about her generation’s use of the digital world at Google’s Big Tent session. Her 2010 TEDtalk:
View ArticleShake Your Google Doodle Groove Thang for Moog’s 78th Birthday!
Haha so the Google Doodle for Robert Moog’s 78th birthday is an interactive Moog Synthesizer that you can play, record, and share with friends to listen. Check out my Google Doodle Groove Thang. I just...
View ArticleThought Experiment: Facebook Mobile Operating System underway…
Facebook is playing a little too coy and over-selling the fact their mobile advertising revenue is low and that they have “no clue how mobile works”… Considering everything we’ve seen about the IPO,...
View ArticleFace Unlock – Android: Facial Recognition Security Feature
Pretty cool feature! …Just in case, there’s a redundant security layer from the swipe pattern or pass code if the software cannot recognize you at various entries (especially in the dark). After you...
View ArticleFacebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg Talks to Harvard class of 2012
Hahaha – “‘Don’t be an idiot’ = Excellent career advice…’get on a rocket ship!’”
View ArticleJuan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species? #TEDxSummit talk
One of my favorite talks during TEDxSummit in Doha. Definitely some food for thought…
View ArticleInstagram’s Kevin Systrom: From Stanford to Startup [Entire Talk]
One of the best entrepreneurship and startup talks I’ve ever seen!
View ArticleGoogle Ngram Viewer: Profit, Happiness, and Income in 500 years of texts...
The image above charts the frequency of mentions that “profit”, “happiness”, and “income” each had within the 15+ million books/texts that the Google Books project has digitally scanned and databased...
View ArticleYasser Bahjatt: How Arab sci-fi could dream a better future – #TEDxSummit
Check out one of my TEDxSummit roommates, Yasser Bahjatt, deliver his talk/audition for TED2013 while we were all in Doha.
View ArticleThe Creative Process: Dodge Dart commercial 2012
Love this commercial covering the creative process of inventing something new. #SoTrue
View ArticleMoneyball Red Sox Job Offer Scene: #innovation #disruption
This is my favorite scene from Moneyball because it ties the entire movie together and is a prime example of anybody who does things differently, innovates, or simply thinks outside the box: “For...
View ArticleSir Ken Robinson “The World We Explore”
“Many of the things we think are so smart and groovy just now will be discarded within 10 years…I think if you show your grandchildren your iPad, they will smile at you with a kind of patronizing look...
View ArticleThe Secret of A Successful Young Entrepreneur
Reblogged from Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo: I usually temper the amount of alcohol I consume when in a professional setting because when under the influence I tend to lose the split second of judgment...
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