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🔗📼 Martin Gutmann: Are we celebrating the wrong leaders?

Spoiler Alert. Yes - but that’s not an excuse not to watch it.

This is what a digital coup looks like. A New Ted Talk From Carole Cadwalladr.

(If you are reading this on the timeline - the embed I am using isn’t showing - but it works perfectly on john.philpin.

📼 Stunning … all of it - but mainly at 12:35 - as he recites a poem.


If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.

 

📼 A superb Ted Talk from David McWilliams

📼 The Next Global Superpower Isn’t Who You Think … except I think we all know who it is - because we pay attention and you know it is exactly who we think.

📼 Do we see reality as it is? 🤯

Absolutely Nothing! Say it again. Simon Sinek talking about what game theory teaches us about war. [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bFs6ZiynSU&t=10s) Maybe why we no longer win wars? Thinking Allowed This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me. More about People First Other People First Posts (not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.

Photo by Gary Butterfield on Unsplash Of course it is. But the bigger question is what is your purpose? Imagine my delight to stumble across this Ted Talk ... 'How to know your life's purpose in 5 minutes.' Finally! Adam sets the scene pretty quickly. You just need to ask yourself 5 questions and 'Bob's your Uncle'. 5 Questions To Answer Your Purpose who you werewhat do you dowho do they do it forwhat those people want or needwhat they get out of it - how they changed as a result Simple.

[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TfwRRJTF1o) As we move computing power to the edge, this talk resonates even more. Two - that's two conversations just yesterday that I had where we talked about bringing the power of computing to your pocket. Think about it - we glibly talk about the 'supercomputer in our pocket' - and we use it to 'like' Facebook posts, send messages and whatever else it is you do - but hardly supercomputer activity.

Links That Caught My Eye - Life Moved on - I Forget What I Had To Say. (Part 10)

🔗 Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way

🔗 The tale of the tortuous creation of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother

Jane Fonda speaks at TEDWomen 2019


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