Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2010 Derek Sivers on the "first follower"
Leadership is over glorified - It's the first follower who turns the lone nut into a leader by the act of following and that's a heroic role to play.
2010 Jennifer McCrea on exponential fund raising
People do not give to the needs of your organization, they give to join you in achieving your vision.
2010 Robert Gupta on the powers of music
Music is transformative in a healing way and I've seen it in Nathaniel Anthony Ayers' eyes
2010 Janet Baker on the engineering inside our brains
Variety is the spice of life because novelty "excites" us as shown by brain responses over time to semantic stimuli
2010 Neil Izenberg on why babies are cute
Babies are cute because of the law of the survival of the cutest - true for design, true for animal right's groups
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
2010 Cindy Gallop on microactions to change the world
Turn good intentions into actions by changing the world microaction at a time (enabled by a social web tool)
2010 Phil Zimbardo on "heroes are us"
Villains and heroes are the exceptions, the vast majority of people do nothing of imagination: a new conception of heroism needs to be democratized (anyone), demystified (ordinary people, extraordinary acts), diffused (hero networks) and declared (public commitment to be a hero)
2010 Juliana Machado Ferreira on what happens after the good guys arrive
Saving trafficked animals does not end at the rescue - there needs to be a way to responsibly release the animals back into the wild rather than euthanize them.
2010 Jonathan Drori on pollen
Pollen is tiny, biologically active, engages in promiscuous sex, sticks onto things (leaves a forensic trail) and is generally really cool ;)
2010 Jonathan Klein on images that change the world
When you are faced with a photograph that is difficult to look at you can make a choice to turn away or do something; we bring to each image our own values
2010 Frederik Balagadde on microdiagnostics
Similar technologies to those that allowed miniaturization of electronics are now allowing miniaturization of diagnostics - think of a micro fluid system analogous to a microchip.
2010 Kevin R. Stone on bioware
Use biologic tissue to regrow damaged human tissue or replace it with human or animal donor tissue (primed with your stem cells) instead of doing artificial joint replacement and harness the benefits of 400 million years of evolution.
2010 Daniel Kraft races through a swathe of medic technologies
Exponentially more powerful and cheaper technology and data will transform the health care paradigm through targeted personalized interventions that will move us towards stage 0 medicine.
2010 Felix Kramer on throwing away his running shoes
Shoes do nothing to protect runners, in fact it's safer to run bare foot because you land better
2010 Catherine Mohr on sustainability choices
Often it's not where you expect that the sustainability benefit (or cost) lies
Michael Martin on reaction to recession same as to a Tornado
Stay positive, provide leadership, control your senses, stay safe, it will ultimately pass
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