by Simon Taylor
Author: Holger Hubbs
Steve Jobs is known for his effective speeches and presentations in narrative form, but twice in his career he leveraged the ceremony as a unique communication tool to get his point across. Duarte’s latest book is “Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols”
Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state, even the onset of psychosis? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reflects on ancient Greece and the origins of introspection to investigate how our words hint at our inner lives and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. “We may be seeing in the future a very different form of mental health,” Sigman says, “based on objective, quantitative and automated analysis of the words we write, of the words we say.”
Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-time continuum within a two-dimensional still photograph. // Holger Hubbs: I am located in Pacific Grove, CA 93950, and available for creative projects: Photography, Internet, Productivity, Art & Education, Scripture, and things we maybe haven’t named yet.
“Why I rarely go to the office, only see my team a couple times a week, and let other people make important decisions.”
The following is from Adriano Ferrari, the founder of www.Gingkoapp.com — a very simple and interesting but powerful online cloud service.
“Today we will go over three of the most basic functions of a multimeter starting with testing continuity. “
“The only people who don’t experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection. No one wants to talk about it and the less you talk about it the more you have it.”
This sounds very theoretical, but it is highly practical when we streamline your digital life; from ‘how do you treat emails’ to ‘how do you decide what is your next action’.
Many people entertain a hate-love relationship with their computer… We will keep it fun. IBM video: “Coping with Humans”: A Support Group for Bots (Extended Version)