Jason Fried is the co-founder of the Chicago company 37signals.com which creates on-line collaboration tools for projects and companies. I use one of them, Backpack, to collaborate with other people on web projects. Fried is a progressive thinker in the business world and this video is a good example of his thinking. Enjoy!
Some years ago I read Temple Grandin’s fascinating and moving book Thinking in Pictures. Here is some biographical material on her at wikipedia.org →. Below is a brief description of her at TED.com:
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works — sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.
In my opinion, Jamie Oliver is one of the most interesting and important activists around today. Below is a moving TED Talk he recently gave on how food is killing so many people, above all, children.
Students who have been working with me for a long time may remember, years ago, our sometimes watching VHS recordings of David Blaine television specials. Last year Blaine gave a TED Talk on his endurance feats. Besides being an endurance artist, he is a street magician. I have always liked his work and his style.
This is an inspiring talk on health and longevity by the National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner.
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.
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