Videos

This 100 seconds of Steve Jobs dispensing his thoughts on life is probably something we should all listen to every morning.

I’m no artist or creative genius, but this New York Times article by Susan Cain pretty much sums up the work environment I’ve evolved to over the past five years, or at least the setting in which I feel most creative and productive.

Had dinner with some friends tonight, including Jim Gilliam. When I got home, I re-watched his PdF 2011 “The Internet is My Religion” talk. You should, too.

Inside North Korea is an excellent National Geographic documentary that highlights Kim Jong-il’s impact on every day lives of North Koreans, the DMZ, how badly its youth are affected by malnultrition and the workings of its prison camps.

Came across this excellent hour-long interview Bill Moyers did with Buddhist nun Pema Chodron. The segment is broken into six videos and includes an overview of the Tibetan concept of shenpa.

Love the anecdote at the end about a four year-old boy born in a Cambodian prison.

I.O.U.S.A. is a must-watch documentary explaining in simple terms the United States government’s financial woes. Seeing the fiscal incompetence of our political leaders will end up depressing or angering you. There’s a great clip of Congressman Ron Paul calling Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to the carpet. The visuals and graphics do an excellent job [...]

Eli Pariser’s TED Talk, Beware online “filter bubbles”, is an overview of his new book, The Filter Bubble. The comments from his KQED interview highlight much of his and others’ concerns about the way companies like Google and Facebook are personalizing our Web activity. “We really need the Internet to be that thing that we [...]

Great TED Talk from security expert Bruce Schneier. “We estimate the probability of something by how easy it is to bring instances of it to mind. So you can imagine how that works. You hear a lot of tiger attacks. There must be a lot of tigers around. You don’t hear about lion attacks. There [...]

“Smiling is one of the most basic, biological, uniform expressions of all humans.”