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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 [...]
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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 15 I’m having flashbacks to my old TV news anchor days. If I were still working in the newsroom, the earthquake in Haiti would have been the center of my world for as long as it was a big story. I’m glad I’m no longer required to immerse myself in tragedy. These days, I get the information I need, [...]
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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. [...]
Full StoryThere 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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Did you seethe New York Times Magazine this weekend where Virginia Heffernan owned up to being a junkie? As friends of Bill W. say, “Hi, Virginia.” I, too, am a TED addict. I’m going for my big fix next week. The rush is indescribable. You can get a contact high at www.ted.com. Like the usual [...]
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