Wednesday, March 25, 2009
"Ideas Worth Spreading"
An interesting "lecture series" type site with lots of different speakers and subjects: TED.
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When working in a medium sized office setting, you tend to share links with your co-workers, and then forget to show your other friends. This is a demonstration of what a recent study claims we spend 25% of our office time doing (while maintaining or even increasing productivity). Our managers, on the other hand, would call them "distractions".
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1 comment:
All you have to say is that Adam Savage was a TED speaker... My favorite are Majora Carter, Hans Rosling and Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth
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