Tim Brown & Bruce Nussbaum On The Future Of Design Thinking

An odd and interesting conversation about the future of Design Thinking between two of DT biggest advocates.

I specially enjoy Brown's inarticulation whenever he has to answer a question that doesn't fit into his 'conference scheme'; or Nussbaum's lack of commitment towards what he has defined as one of the biggest thought innovations in the last fifteen years. It seems like he is dying to wrap the evening with a "Design Thinking is so 2009".

Where is the love...?

Sir Ken Robinson: The Element & The Formula For Real Success

Ken Robinson joins Riz Khan to share his ideas for improving education, business and ourselves. Robinson left his job as a professor of arts education at the University of Warwick eight years ago to help others find their element and teach them how to thrive in it.

His latest book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything discusses the elements for real success: natural talents and personal passion.

 

Douglas Adams & Why 'Saving The World' Is The Wrong Approach


(via @tedtalks)

English writer, dramatist and musician Douglas Adams, best known for his novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy delivers one of the most inspiring talks I have ever seen. 

In a clumsy and ludic manner and often cheeky and satiric, Adams engages the audience with his particular perspective or the world. Forget about best-selling novels or hollywood tales, this intimate conversation couldn't be further away from this type of trivialities, yet it's introduced as if it was. Until you realise you are 45 minutes in and there are 40 to go and you wish there were another 90 minutes left instead. 

The beauty and value of this piece resides in the fact that it does not intend to change the way you feel or think about a specific topic. It just aims to reach you. And by doing so, it touches you and makes you listen and reflect on whatever it is that we are doing with ourselves in this planet. 

And yes, by the end of it you will change the way you feel and think about things...

Beware it is 90' long (but worth every second!)