Lost Generation

June 20, 2009 Inspiration
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Jonathan Reed created this video for the AARP U@50 The contest, launched in August 2007 on YouTube, gave people between the ages of 18 and 30 the chance to submit short videos on the subject of what they expect their lives to be like at age 50. I am part of a lost generation and [...]

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Picture These Shocking Stats

June 20, 2009 Art & Design
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My understanding of good art is that it should challenge the status quo and give us reason to react. Chris Jordan’s work is simply effective by helping people to see and connect with the statistics with which we are inundated. “This is 1 million plastic cups. Which is the number of plastic cups that are [...]

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Philippe Starck on Design

June 20, 2009 Art & Design
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Here’s a Frenchman who doesn’t take himself too seriously. It is humbling to be able to see beyond yourself and the importance of your own work, especially when you design toothbrushes and other incredibly beautiful things. My favourite part of his talk is the “duty of vision” about the importance of raising our angle of [...]

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The Great Disruption

March 9, 2009 Economics
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Thomas L Friedman wrote a great column in the New York Times questioning whether the global financial crisis is indicative of a greater failure in our society. “What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when [...]

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Yoo Ye Eun

February 13, 2009 Inspiration
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This five year old, blind and adopted little girl must be the definition of love in the Korean dictionary.

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Rachel Corrie

January 9, 2009 Leadership
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Let me tell you about a girl I recently came to know of. Her name is Rachel and she’s from a middle-class American family you could describe as politically liberal and economically conservative. She grew up in Washington with an older brother and sister. Her dad is an insurance executive and her mum an amateur [...]

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Let Them Eat Cake!

December 29, 2008 Travel
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On the eve of my birthday this year, I have the enviable pleasure of calling home my own, small-but-very-cosy 4th floor Paris apartment in the multicultural working-class district of La Goutte d’Or. From the two, tall Haussmann-era windows beside my desk I can almost reach out and touch the dome of the Sacre Coeur, standing [...]

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What I Believe

April 19, 2008 Writing
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I wrote the following passage after a great deal of reflection and soul searching to pull myself out of a rather depressing period of my life. Although it was many years ago, these words still mean the world to me and I am proud of each and every one of them… I think that hatred [...]

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