Mail in the Mailbox
By Kevin
More Mails!
This week's package has arrived! It's pretty heavy so I'm cutting down on the quantity of reads. As always, we begin with a talk from the wonderful conference, TED; by Physicist David Deutsch that attempts to explain the sudden explosive development in our ability to explain the world. Deutsch speaks slowly and refers to his notes frequently but his explanations and knowledge of reality is brilliant. The anecdotes and examples he gave are both apt and interesting enough to compensate for his lack of speaking prowess. In the lecture, Deutsch introduced the Royal Society's motto, "Nullius in Verba" (Latin for "take nobody's word for it") which I found immensely intriguing.
For those interested to know about economics in the world today can listen to the interview with 2005 Nobel Economics Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. It's a pity there's no subtitles available for the interview as well as the TED.com lecture linked above.
Finally, plunge into the long read by Peter York from moreIntelligentLife, How Marketing has got under our skin explores the history, trends and current state of the issue of self-branding or personal branding.
New Mail
By Kevin
More Boxes!
This week's package of video, audio and reads is a little more on the lighter side, starting with a short 3-minute talk by Dr Laura Trice about asking for praise. After that you might like to listen to Dan Ariely's talk on our buggy moral code, a topic I've always been interested in.
In news, you might be encouraged to understand that Genius and talent is overrated and social forces can manipulate the motivations to create genius sheerly through encouragement as argued by Steven Levitt in SuperFreakonomics.
I'll like to take the chance to introduce Knowledge@Wharton, which offers high quality content as well as podcast on economics and business issues of the day. You might like to listen about questions posed on Net Neutrality.
Once again, enjoy your weekends!
Reading Package
By Kevin
Zero Kilogrammes!
I'm going to put together a package of links for you to read, watch, listen and thus learn about various topics, centered around current affairs, self-improvement, economics and probably knowledge in general. I'm hoping I would be able to put together one package each week for students to enjoy over each weekend during this holidays period. The packages will expose you to a wide variety of information, ideas and insights on reality.
This week, we start with a wonderfully humorous and insightful talk by Rory Sutherland on TED.com. In Lessons from an Ad Man, Rory sends audience into wave after wave of laughter and applause as he explains his ridiculous and weird but often bizarrely sensible proposition about how we should try and increase the intrinsic intangible value of things in our world.
Next, on the business and finance news, Nokia sued Apple regards to patent infringement and tries to demand a compensation that Apple is unwilling to fork out. For more regarding how the Intellectual Property landscape is changing, you might like to check out The Economist article Trolls demanding tolls.
Finally, make yourself a cup of coffee and find out about doing businesses in top cities of the world through an audio series by The Economist starting from Doing Business in London. For a leisure read on business matters in the software field, after your audio and coffee, check out Fortune Magazine's coverage of the Microsoft's Revamped via the release of Windows 7.
Enjoy the weekends!
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