TED Talks: Motivation for the week ahead
If you haven’t been watching the TED Talks that are now being posted online, you’re missing out. I’ve started watching one every (well, nearly every) Monday morning. These talks from the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference are sometimes related to library or publishing issues, but they are always related to thinking big and taking risks. Plus I get a nice motivational kick in the pants when I see how much these speakers are accomplishing in their lives.
I watch the streaming video versions, but you can also download the video or just the audio to your desktop or to iTunes. Here’s a great one to get you hooked: Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing. These should make for great patron recommendations: for students in search of a good paper topic, for commuters tired of trying to read on a bumpy bus or train, for joggers no longer inspired by “Eye of the Tiger”…
Pictured above: Hmm…what do you think? Leave a comment with your best out-of-the-box guess. I’ll post the answer next week.
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June 4th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Mars?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:41 am
This is obviously an extreme closeup of a battered Nerf football. Or an extreme wide shot of the Rocky Mountains. Or the skin of a rhino. Or cement.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:43 am
The photo makes me think of chocolate cake.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:43 am
The bottom of my refrigerator…
June 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
mmm chocolate cake.
But I hope it’s the skin of a rhino.