Tag Archives: TED Fellows
Do Be Do Be Do
Day 191 I’ve just returned from a reception for the TEDGlobal2010 Fellows. These world-changing individuals are intimidating even to the Fellows who precede them. Every time we meet a new class of Fellows, at least one of the outgoing Fellows or Senior Fellows will say, “I’m glad I didn’t have to compete for a spot in THIS [...]
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Day 157 I knew it was time for a new photo when one of the TED Fellows said, “I wouldn’t have recognized you from your picture.” And another said, “Oh, I would have. Of course, you’ve gained a lot of weight since then.” Tim Llewellyn took that picture, and it’s been my logo for years. [...]
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Day 75 During my sabbatical I am looking for sources of delight, and I can always count on Maria Popova to provide a plethora. I can’t remember how or where I first heard of her. Maybe it was Twitter , maybe it was through her creation called TEDify in which she does a mashup of TED Talks. [...]
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Day 70 My houseguest asked yesterday, “What is the difference between what you do on your sabbatical and what you do when you are working? Because last year, when you are working, you are on the computer. When you are on sabbatical, you are also on the computer.” That’s easy. What I’m doing on the computer [...]
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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 [...]
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Day 14 Yes, I know, it’s almost the end of Day 14. I’m not responding to artificial deadlines this year. When TED Community Director Tom Rielly invited The Harnisch Foundation to be a founding sponsor of the TED Fellows program, we signed on immediately. The TED Fellows are some of the most extraordinary people in the world. [...]
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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 [...]
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