Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex (so have great ideas!!)

Here’s Matt’s talk from this years TEDGlobal. I’ve just read his book: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. For those of you who like to focus on what works which is at the heart of Dr. Joseph Riggio’s MythoSelf process you’ll appreciate Matt’s book. The related book is Gregg Easterbrook’s latest: Sonic Boom: Globalization at [...]

How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

I just read Ken Robinson’s book: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. He’s a great speaker. I’ve included a couple of his talks from TED below. The book is a great read if you want inspiring stories from famous people who’ve found their “element”. But what I couldn’t find in the book was [...]

Way of the Warrior – Way of the Samurai part 4 of 4

Way of the Warrior – Way of the Samurai part 3 of 4

Way of the Warrior – Way of the Samurai part 2 of 4

Way of the Warrior – the Way of the Samurai part 1 of 4

Thanks to Simon Yeo for pointing me to this. I’m remember watching the TV series years ago, profoundly inspirational.

Apple is now worth more than Microsoft

What’s a Mac? Doesn’t your computer run Windows? I’ve heard so many times… Using a PC has always felt so inferior to using a Mac. Yet while most people who used Macs got that were better I don’t think most people would have predicted little Apple being worth more than the giant Microsoft. Has reality [...]

Entering the desert of the real

I remember Joseph making a comment that part of the reason clients wanted to work with him was that they wanted to interact with someone real. I notice many people are not “real” in the sense that they are not all there. Now I don’t mean this in the insulting way that phrase is normally [...]

Recording of Joseph LIVE in Taipei – part three

Recording of Joseph LIVE in Taipei – part two