⭐️ Videos
Play, Passion, Purpose
Needless to say those three words grabbed my attention immediately. And then when he said ...
The culture of schooling is radically at odds with the culture of learning that produces innovators.
Tony Wagner
I was hooked.
Very good Ted Talk - just one gripe ...
He just about opens the talk with
I came to understand, that there's a set of core competencies every young person must be well on their way to mastery before he or she finished high school.
- critical thinking and problem solving
- collaboration across networks and leading by influence
- agility and adaptability
- initiative and entropenorialism
- effective oral and written communication
- accessing and analyzing information
- curiosity and imagination
Tony Wagner
i.e. if you have left school, sorry - we taught you all wrong as to how to succeed in the life in front of you.
What he should have said was
I came to understand, that there's a set of core competencies every person must master.
I know he doesn't mean it and I guess it is about education - but the implication is that you have left school then 'we taught you all wrong'.
Keeping that in mind ... well worth a watch.
🚧 Ditch The Binary - Redux
As I finished this short post, I headed out to the 'google-web-net' to see if I could find a suitable and representative image. I was failing unitl I focussed on 'Redux'. The images associated with Redux are highly Redux oriented, with a high degree of focus on their logo. What you might expect, given the name - but this is not about what they do. So I kept looking and discovered this.
It's as if Karin Edgett read my mind. The image was perfect and the words so in tune with my thoughts, that I couldn't resist.
My entry 'let go of everything or anything and breathe' is part of a series of paintings and haiku exploring infinity in it's transformative sense.
Karin Edgett
Back On Topic
Interesting to read this post from Doc Searls today - which also happens to be his birthday.
🎵 Heard part of this on the final episode of Nick Mason’s Sound and Technology podcast.
This is a more complete 6 minutes of the David Bowie interview.
The disbelief and facial expressions of Paxman are priceless.
🎵 Is it just me that has Boris The Spider running through his head on constant repeat?
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It's 5 0'Clock
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Up every morning just to keep a job,
I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob,
Sounds of the city pounding in my brain,
While another day goes down the drain (Yeah, yeah, yeah).
but it’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows,
No-one owns a piece of my time,
And there’s a five o’clock me inside my clothes,
Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah,
Let's End Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Let's End Ageism - A Ted Talk
| Released | August 23, 2017 |
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Lot's more to say on this, and will. Some of the points I touched on in Tuesday's Newsletter.
Thinking Allowed
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Considering the ongoing and growing concern that we humans are turning our oceans into plastic, I can’t help wondering if Catalina (Apple’s new MacOS) is some kind of metaphor for it being a ‘rock in an ocean of plastic’?
In This Cold Place
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'In This Cold Place - With animation by Steve Cutts.
| Released | June 19, 2017 |
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A second video that hits you to the bone.
Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'Are You Lost In The World Like Me'? With animation by Steve Cutts.
| Released | October 18, 2016 |
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Its a couple of years since this was released - but still relevant today - and definitely relevant to People First, so capturing it in the archives.
Sorry - I can’t recall where I got this from - BUT 🔗📼 for all Escher and Penrose fans a short mesmerising video.
#vimeo
The Anti-CEO Playbook
I am not usually slow in attacking the nature of business, but not sure the 'Anti-CEO' playbook is exactly the right angle here. That said Hamid Ulukaya's points are excellent. How he built Chobani is a fascinating story. And at one point I was very much reminded me of a couple of People First tenets.
The American Dream
All that is needed ... just three minutes of your time. A little more 'political' than the usual People First posts ... George Carlin - Life Is Worth Losing.
| Released | January 10, 2006 |
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| Recorded | November 5, 2005, Beacon Theater, New York City, New York |
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Thirteen Years Ago ... needless to say - nothing has changed, other than more people are aware ... hoping that this will make even more people aware ... and then we do something about it.
Thinking Allowed
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People Matter
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
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John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize Speech.
via Brainpickings
For all in the UK - something to make you feel better. This link is cued to start at the right place - 15 seconds. For some reason the embed isn’t taking it.
(Except now it is! Go figure!)
(I really wanted to try the new micro.blog video upload - but looks like ‘Mr Pie’ has a control to stop trimming. Well - specifically, if trimmed … you don’t get to share. Makes sense I guess.
Rutger Bregam talking to Trevor Noah on The Daily Show.
Rutger exemplifies the thinking that The Correspondent will be delivering to the US market from September 30th of this year.
🎵 Damn it … if it’s going to get worm its way into my ear … then it can worm its way into yours.
When i saw this protest outside of Downing Street … I was reminded of this quote …
”The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
John D. Rockefeller
If you have a spare 21 minutes and 26 seconds …. spend it here … now .. I don’t know how John Oliver can make something so funny and depressing at the same time - but he does … in spades.
You’ll also learn more about Brexit than you ever expected and it is all spot on.
Well … it looks like Typewriters have ‘gone mainstream’ … in an underground sort of way
Enjoy