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The Secret of Happiness from Maria Popova on Vimeo.
Check out TED mashup TEDify.org for more.

Elizabeth Gilbert gives an awesome talk at TED 2009 about creative genuis:

Be warned, this is not an easy video to watch.

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As you may know, I’m a fan of TED, having posted a few of their videos. Tonight, TED2008 opens with a live webcast, follow this link, and it starts at 5:15pm Pacific time. From TED’s newsletter:
…we are opening up one complete session of TED free to the world, streamed live over the web. It’s the [...]

Awhile back I wrote this post on simplicity. John Maeda gives a great talk about his appropriately simple analysis of the subject:

If you had looked at me yesterday and said “tomorrow, you’ll be blogging about Microsoft in a nice manner”, I would have said “you’re on better glue than I’m on!”. But here I am, doing just that. Why? Because of this video, from TED (yeah, I watch a few of them).
This is about technology they [...]

TED is an absolutely brilliant website, possibly THE most important website right now. Take the time to check it out, and be sure to watch this, a talk on how existing education systems undermine creativity:

I just watched two videos from Ted. The first about MIT’s FabLab and the second about sustainability, by the founder of World Changing. Having a look around on the World Changing site I realised that sustainability is the new green. This may sound like a negative thing to say, but that’s not my meaning.
This [...]