Women – Keep Leaning In

by | Jan 31, 2014 | big ideas, culture, TED, TEDx, video

Sheryl Sandberg wrote a book called Lean In – here is what has happened since then. I watched this clip last night and just loved hearing the update. This was recorded in Dec 2013 for TEDxWomen. An excellent clip for men (and women) to listen to and learn from....

Prof James Flynn at TED 2013

by | Oct 9, 2013 | big ideas, culture, TED, video

One of the big idea talks at this years TED Conference was professor James Flynn on Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents. Prof Flynn taught at Otago University in Dunedin for many years and is a global expert on his topic. In simple terms our kids ( and...

How 24,000 TEDx Talk Ideas Link Together

by | Sep 28, 2013 | big data, big ideas, TED, TEDx, video

One of the meta ideas that I have been thinking about for years now is how great ideas can appear from anywhere and sometimes these ideas overlap because of culture, education and our global mobility. I know many of you who have extensive personal networks in more...

Progress Paradox debate – Gordon, Brynjolfsson

by | Apr 30, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video

Here is the actual debate between Gordon and Brynjolfsson from TED 2013. Towards the end it goes in some surprising directions. Gordons first question relates to artificial intelligence and single purpose machines. The rebuttal is that machines solve problems in a...

Robert Gordon on the end of growth at TED 2013

by | Apr 28, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video

Here is the Prof Robert Gordon TED2013 talk on the end of growth which was answered by the Erik Brynjolfsson counter view (posted on last week.) Then the two of them had a 12 minute debate. The first point I noted is that instead of the 6 headwinds the presentation is...