January 2010
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December 2009
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“Few sectors have endured the economic downturn of recent years better than...”
– The Hostage Business, a NY Times article by Nicholas Schmidle (via erichian)
November 2009
14 posts
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Watch#TTOTW (Ted Talk of the Week) Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight
“Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.”
Man, I love this talk. And not just because she’s holding a human...
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Watch#TTOTW (Ted Talk of the Week) - How I Harnessed the Wind
TED excerpt: “When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.
In Malawi they must fees to attend secondary school. Kamkwamba’s family could not afford it, so he was forced to drop out....
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Watch#TTOTW (Ted Talk of the Week) - David Logan on Tribal Leadership.
It’s really unfortunate that Logan has to use the over-used term “tribes” but that aside, there’s some really good content in here. The Big Idea: There are five stages of tribes… starting from Tribe Stage 1: Brute Survival of Scarce Resources and evolving to Tribe Stage 5: Enlightened Abundance for...
October 2009
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