av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 4, 2018 | Ted
What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate democracy, rethinking everything from board meetings to how workers report their vacation days (they don’t have to).
It’s a vision that rewards the wisdom of workers, promotes work-life balance — and leads to some deep insight on what work, and life, is really all about. Bonus question: What if schools were like this too?
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 3, 2018 | Ted
”Secrets can take many forms — they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful.” Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 29, 2018 | Ted
Designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides to show — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question ”Why design?” Listen carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 28, 2018 | Ted
The human brain is puzzling — it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a tremendous amount of energy for its weight and has a bizarrely dense cerebral cortex. But: why? Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel puts on her detective’s cap and leads us through this mystery. By making ”brain soup,” she arrives at a startling conclusion.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 28, 2018 | Ted
”Will machines replace humans?” This question is on the mind of anyone with a job to lose. Daniel Susskind confronts this question and three misconceptions we have about our automated future, suggesting we ask something else: How will we distribute wealth in a world when there will be less — or even no — work?
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 27, 2018 | Ted
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it — the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.
