Tag Archives: TED Conference
Have To, Get To, Want To, Need To
Day 47
Yesterday I wrote that I am resisting the urge to write volumes about my TED experience.
Janet Ginsburg sent a thoughtful comment , which deserves a reply.
First, one of the TED Talks that I predict will be the next talk-heard-’round-the-world is a talk from an audience member at TEDActive in Palm Springs. A young woman talks about having [...]
TED Head
Day 44
After the TED Conference, my head is exploding.
I need to sleep for about two days now.
Oops. I Broke It.
Day 42
Yesterday I broke a pattern when I accidentally missed TED University – I never missed it before.
And today I missed it on purpose.
This is what happens when barriers are broken – they’re, you know, broken.
I’m not deliberately attempting to create disruption in my patterns, but when they happen, I’m willing to explore new ways of being and [...]
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Day 41
I lost track of the time, and I missed the first session of TED University today.
Ordinarily, I would have been really upset. After all, I’m here for the TED Conference .
But I was doing something else that was important to me, and I’m glad I did it, even though I’m sorry I accidentally missed those TED [...]
You Never Step Into The Same Conference Twice
Day 37
If I hadn’t already signed up, I might have decided to skip the TED Conference.
This might shock those who know I love the annual gathering, that it is the one thing that is on my calendar in indelible ink, that I am paid up until 2017.
I’ve been attending in my role as president of [...]
There Is No Try – Do Or Do Not
Work ethic- it was pounded into me from earliest childhood.
Kids had chores, and were expected to exercise some creativity, ingenuity, and enterprise to earn their own money. I can’t remember when I wasn’t busy. I usually had more than one job – even in high school, I was working at a radio station and a [...]
So BusTED
This is the shirt that launched a thousand lies. OK, I’m exaggerating for the sake of literary allusion. It was maybe a dozen cases of mistaken idenTEDy.
www.mondonation.com allows you to complete the sentence “i believe” and put it on the back of a t-shirt. I got a long-sleeved pink one that says “i believe heaven is a ted [...]
InteresTED?
I know, I know, enough about TED. But whatever you care about, someone at TED is probably doing something about it. One of my core principles is “non-duplication of effort.” Why should you work so hard to do something that’s already been done, or that other people have figured out a way to do that [...]
Full StoryPosTED
It’s a blur. I filled an entire Reporter’s Notebook. TED2009 (www.ted.com) is a feast for the mind, the heart, the soul. I say “is,” even though it would appear to be over, because the conference lives on via the TED Talks that are posted online.
Confession: Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling Eat Pray Love did not engender a [...]
So ExciTED
Ahhhh, the TED Conference, where no matter who you are, what you’ve accomplished, what you have, what you gave, who you know or what you know, you wonder why they let you come. (My best TED friend Kokoe says people who feel special in their daily lives are disconcerted because they’re not so special here. [...]
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