Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence, gives a talk at Google about his latest work in finding the hidden drivers of excellence. Interestingly he notes that his research into this changed his view on some of his original thinking on emotional intelligence. His latest book can be found here

January 5, 2014 Business, Education, Life, Video

Paul Levy gives a great talk at Google based on examples from his book Goal Play. Anybody in a leadership role should watch this and I particularly like his example of normalisation of deviance.

November 25, 2012 Business, Education, Life, Talk, Video

A nice TedEd animation detailing the US electoral collage system.

November 2, 2012 Education, Life, Video

The videos from the Startup School 2012 talks are now live. They include interviews with Mark Zuckerberg, Hiroshi Mititani (Rakuten) and I really liked Patrick Collison’s talk on Stripe.

 

A great talk and Q&A from Cal Newport who talks about his research on why its a bad idea to follow your passion

October 25, 2012 Business, Economics, Education, Life, Talk, Video

Screen Shot 2012-10-12 at 11.58.15

Im wondering if anyone is interested in pulling together a team (or teams) for AngelHack London on the 10th and 11th of November. No big idea yet so I was thinking on they day we could just pick a problem to solve from the Internet Wishlist and try to solve it within the 24 hours. Any takers or other suggestions?

Looks to be a quite concerning documentary on how the education system works in the us and how they evolve the curriculum.

October 7, 2012 Education, Video

Great Ted talk from Amy Cuddy on body language and its power over the mind.

October 3, 2012 Business, Education, Life, Talk

Screen Shot 2012-10-03 at 21.49.04

BESQUARE is a beautiful site containing videos from all those cool conferences and talks that you can never get to!

October 3, 2012 Education, Talk

I came across this very cool variant of Tetris which replaces the blocks with European countries. I think this is a great learning tool and was impressed with Schmitz’s ability.

January 21, 2011 Computing, Education, Games

12
1 2