Encouragement Keeps us Going

There is nothing more gratifying than to hear the words, "well done."  It is like putting fuel into a car.  It keep us motivated in ways that are hard to understand.  Now, I realize that we should not be bound by what other's think about us and that it is dangerous to "need to be [...]

Power of a story (Brian Andreas)

 

Original Blog Post from Ethan Zuckerman
The crux of Andreas’ time was spent helping the audience understand the power of a story to build general awareness and support for what at times are complex scientific and techonological issues.  Here is an excerpt I wanted to share.
 

start with the first three rules: treat me like a friend, [...]

TED09 CONFERENCE BEGINS – “What are we waiting for?”

“TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.”

This is basically a four-day who’s who event in Long Beach, CA.  For instance, Bill Gates spoke tonight and he was just a day one speaker.  The crux of [...]

Light of Day

Phelps acknowledges photo showing Olympic swimming star smoking from marijuana pipe – ESPN.
I am not about to judge Michael Phelps (although I wish for his sake and ours as well that he would have made a better choice), but this is a classic case for us all to think about.  Sure we would stop something…when [...]

Closed or Open

The Hunt Morgan house, a Lexington landmark, has this sign posted outside. Interesting enough is the reasoning behind why they wanted the world to know when it was closed instead of open? But how often do we/I do the same thing in our lives? Are we known by what we are against [...]