Justin’s top picks for the week to: Watch. Big Think: Meaningful Work “Sure, we care about money and it’s nice to get paid, but there’s also a whole range of other things that we get—a need for achievement and completion, competition with other people, and a sense of progress and a sense of meaning.” http://bigthink.com/videos/meaningful-work…
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Watch. Steve Jobs: Stanford Commencement Address “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc Listen. 99percentinvisible.org: Reversal of Fortune “The Chicago River is, in large part, a carefully-designed extension of the city’s sewer system. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-86-reversal-of-fortune/ Read. Brain Pickings: What Children Can Teach Us About Risk,…
Watch. TED Talks: The Psychology of Your Future Self “Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_you_are_always_changing Listen. Planet Money: The Dollar at the Center of the World “Somehow he managed to outwit John Maynard Keynes and put the US Dollar at the center of the World.” …
Watch.Listen.Read. for the week of August 6, 2014 Watch. Big Think: Be Yourself “It’s the great tragedy – people employed in ways that don’t fully tap everything they do best in life.” http://bigthink.com/ideas/being-neil-degrasse-tyson-be-yourself Listen. Freakonomics: Why You Should Bribe Your Kids “And we told kids if you choose the fruit and you eat it,…
Watch, listen, read Justin’s top picks for the week of July 15… Watch. 60 Minutes: Drones Over America “As questions about their use loom larger, camera drones are getting smaller.” http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/drones-over-america/ Listen. TED Radio Hour: What is original? “Every painting, every song, every idea comes from somewhere else.” http://www.npr.org/2014/06/27/322910178/is-everything-a-remix Read. FiveThirtyEight: Germany May Be the…
Here are my picks for the week of July 7. Watch. Jim Carrey: Commencement Speech “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.” http://youtu.be/ajMpfPYlHi4 Listen. Planet Money: The M&M Anomaly “Because of proprietary reasons, we are unable to elaborate on the size of…