A Whole New Mind (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is one of those books that, as I read it, I kept quietly saying to myself, “yes!” At times, I felt like Pink had been inside my mind when recounting certain anecdotes, or drawing certain conclusions. So, take this review with a solid dose of confirmation biasRead… Read more »
It’s a bit about ourself, but yesterday, The Canberra Times ran a feature on acidlabs’ founder, Stephen Collins, touching on his work, his passions and the creation of TEDxCanberra. If you’d like to get a little deeper inside the mind of one of Canberra’s big ideas people, you should read the article. Original post
First, it’s really not a tax. It’s an initially fixed price system that ultimately transitions to a market mechanism. Next, despite the protestations of the rent seekers and the political opponents, it’s far better to do something than nothing in response to anthropogenically-caused climate change. No matter how small that response is on a globalRead… Read more »
In everything we do we need to think differently, to do things the way nobody expects us to, to never accept that the way everyone else does something is the right way, and to do everything with the ultimate aim of producing a social good in some form. Original post
Slides for the talk given at the Leadership Drives Success conference for the Tourism Industry Council ACT. Original post
Something read to us at TEDxSummit by Jason Hsu of TEDxTaipei and then in the native Greek by Katerina Biliouri of TEDxThessaloniki. There are real messages in it for those of us who wish to create change in the world. It’s no less about relationships, friendship and love. Ithaca When you set out on yourRead… Read more »
I had the honor of meeting Hans Rosling briefly at TEDxSummit. Now it’s time you listened to him. Original post
Last week was a profound experience for me; I attended my third official TED event — the TEDxSummit for TEDx organisers, held in Doha, Qatar. Bringing over 650 TEDx organisers from in excess of 90 countries together in one place (and maybe one of the few places in the world where this was possible), theRead… Read more »
I’ve just returned from a week sharing experiences and learning from fellow TEDx organisers from around the world. It was quite the experience, with workshops among organisers (I gave two), a day in the Qatari desert, talks by TED speakers and an unforgettable week in a place like no other. Some of my photos areRead… Read more »
At TEDxSummit, I had the privilege of being asked to impart some of my experience in organising TEDxCanberra to my peers from around the world. In doing so, I was asked to run a short talk plus Q&A for newbie organisers and a longer, one-hour interactive workshop for intermediate level organisers. Embedded below are theRead… Read more »