The 3 Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself

A short 7-minute excerise by Vishen Lakhiani (co-founder of Mindvalley) which will help you clarify the difference between your ENDS (end goals) and MEANS. It’ll change the way you see your career, mission, and life purpose unfolding. See the clip below and print the sheet above.  Enjoy!

Copyright vs. The Internet

An interesting talk by Jeremie Zimmermann about the pros and cons of copyright law.

As the crusade against sharing of the entertainment industries goes on, we may be about to lose the most precious tool we ever had for exercising our fundamental freedoms and practicing democracy: the Internet. How the future moves of those desperate, yet powerful industries would radically alter the shape of the Internet? How the ACTA agreement may durably bypass democracy and hurt or freedoms? How to react efficiently as a citizen?

Connected, but alone

Great talk by Sherry Turkle about being together physically, but alone in reality with the over-use of social media and gadgets. They allow us to control and clean up our image, editing and deleting everything we do, say, look like! Real relationships are messy, tangible, takes place in real time, allows for mistakes, misunderstandings, demanding. But these are what make us REAL and not machines. Real relationships make connection - real connection, truly fulfilling. If anyone wants to have a real conversation with me, call me :)

Think, act and communicate from the inside out

Atheism 2.0: Alain de Botton

Finally, a man who really questions religion vs atheism more insightfully and acknowledges the importance  of religion which offers community, support and morality. For me, religion as an institution needs to be updated and atheism as a 'standing' needs to be more flexible and understanding. Alain says it all perfectly, watch it for yourself.

Stefan Sagmeister shares happy design 2004

TED talks: Marian Bantjes

John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer

Marketing whiz, John Gerzema uses data, analysis and decades of experience to identify trends and develop daring new approaches to advertising.