TED Videos
I mentioned TED to a couple people recently, and foolish me I assumed they knew what I was talking about. But really they were looking at me with WTF-eyes. So I realized they had never heard about TED, here’s my small piece of community service today. I’m telling you about TED…
They use this statement which describes it better than I could tell you:
Once a year 1000 remarkable people gather in Monterey, California to exchange something of incalculable value. Their ideas. Ideas worth spreading.
TED truly has Ideas worth spreading, big names come to the gathering and speak on a variety of topics. And when I say variety, I really mean it. The type of presentations also vary, in format. Sometimes they have a performing arts presentation. Motivational speakers sometimes take the reigns and rally the troops for world change. Rounding up the style, we have those that come to speak about what they’ve done, just to tell us their story.
Take for example David Pogue, a popular NY Times blogger that speaks on UI and general design with “Simplicity Sells”. Another famous person, Tony Robbins makes his shortest presentation and ask why we do what we do. And one of my favorite economists, Stephen Dubner’s co-author for Freakonomics, Steven Levitt. Levitt tells us, if drug dealing is so profitable why do crack dealers still live their moms.
The videos are available on their website, and you can also find them via your podcast listener like iTunes, or Juice. I highly recommend these videos; they will enrich your life.
Trivia that Matters. Some trivia I extracted from a video by Chris Jordan.
Natasha’s Story Rick Smolan tells us a captivating story.
Jennifer Lin, piano improv She is amazing at it.
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