Another good Stanford podcast. Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm and Handspring, talks about following your passion, reluctant entrepreneurship, and career.
Videos
Visualization about leveraging chaos for innovation in stable organizations, using General David Petraeus and the Iraq counterinsurgency “surge” as a case study. Content based on the book The Gamble by Thomas Ricks (which I have not read).
You can find the original at mondaydots, or Garr’s article on Presentation Zen, along with the author’s how to for building similar presentations using Apple’s Keynote and iMovie. I’m inspired.
Embracing the Chaos Between Stable State Organizaitons
Visualization about leveraging chaos for innovation in stable organizations, using General David Petraeus and the Iraq counterinsurgency “surge” as a case study. Content based on the book The Gamble by Thomas Ricks (which I have not read).
You can find the original at mondaydots, or Garr’s article on Presentation Zen, along with the author’s how to for building similar presentations using Apple’s Keynote and iMovie. I’m inspired. (Source)
Bill Joy in Conversation with Brent Schlender from Whole Earth Films on FORA.tv
A talk with Bill Joy that includes some gems on disruption in the marketplace, passion replacing greed (in the Gordon Gekko sense), lateral thinking and techniques for online research he uses at Kleiner Perkins.
A wonderful modern routine from the late, great, poet/comedian George Carlin. We miss you George.
Excellent talk by Tom Kelly of IDEO about five practices to develop creativity and innovative thinking: Think like a traveller, treat life like an experiment, nurture an attitude of wisdom, use your whole brian and tortoise mind, and follow your passion. Great advice for work and life. Source can be found here.
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” Steve Jobs’ inspiring speech about loving what you do, trusting your curiosity and intuition, the lightness of being a beginner, connecting the dots looking backward, thinking for yourself and remembering how little time you really have.
It’s been 20 years, but I’ve returned to model rocketry with a successful mission (dubbed “Mercury 1’”) that included five launches, one rocket, two video cameras (one in HD), three still cameras, three GMRS radios, one fire extinguisher, and two dogs. Total cost: $42.27.
The first test launch, with a small B motor, is captured in this video and includes footage in slow motion and from our “pad cam” (parachute deployment is discernable near apogee).
Time permitting, I will post the other launches (which triple the altitude and land much further downrange) and some good outtakes.
And for those who’d like participate in Mercury 2, I highly recommend Hobby People in Camarillo. Stay tuned for mission updates.
Video we took in Hawaii this past August of the ongoing eruption. It’s low res, and there are much better videos out there (specifically this one of the same event), but alas this one’s mine and it’s on YouTube.