An evening of TED talks
Started with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA&NR=1 about "filter bubbles" and how the increasingly sophisticated ranking and filtering systems put each of us into a bubble of our own preferential reading, where we only get information that confirms our beliefs, a fast food of information rather than the vegetables of being challenged.
Then this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA by the author of "Eat, Pray, Love". Apart from giving some potentially life-saving advice to people in highly creative jobs, is also just very funny. If her book is of the same quality, I may just have to read it.
Followed by this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y about how in basically any creative endeavour, adding more incentives decreases performance. Tested and proven again and again. Can we stop handing out huge bonuses to CEOs now?
A curious (long) interlude by the French artist JR in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAy1zBtTbw doing semi-illegal large-scale photo art in dangerous areas.
The title "The Power of Vulnerability" sounded interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o&NR=1
I watched the last one twice.
Then this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA by the author of "Eat, Pray, Love". Apart from giving some potentially life-saving advice to people in highly creative jobs, is also just very funny. If her book is of the same quality, I may just have to read it.
Followed by this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y about how in basically any creative endeavour, adding more incentives decreases performance. Tested and proven again and again. Can we stop handing out huge bonuses to CEOs now?
A curious (long) interlude by the French artist JR in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAy1zBtTbw doing semi-illegal large-scale photo art in dangerous areas.
The title "The Power of Vulnerability" sounded interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o&NR=1
I watched the last one twice.