What a fantastic location - Opera House - for a magnificent group of speakers. Impressed by Joost (www.joost.com) with his ideas of sustainable living (and growing your own food wherever you live) and Marita Cheng (robogals) teaching young girls around the world the value of becoming an engineer. She was 2012 Australian of the Year.
Speaking at the HR Summit in the Luna Park on April 10th at 2:45 pm
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but to see quickly how to make them good.
Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.
One if 5 Americans work from home
New technologies like telepresence helping to make telecommuting gain in popularity. Home offices seen expanding by as much as 63% in next five years. A growing number of Americans are working from home. Whether they are self-employed entrepreneurs running small accounting services, or telecommuting for multinational consulting firms, some 30 million of us work from a home office at least once a week. And that number is expected to increase by 63% in the next five years, according to a study by the Telework Research Network.
(Source: Forbes)
Even though I am not a travel writer, I could not resist posting this beautiful photo of Champagne Beach in Vanuatu. Amazing turquoise waters in the biggest island called Santo (or Espiritu Santo). Pristine blue holes, welcoming people and plenty of coral reefs full of colourful tropical fish at your fingertips is what you can expect when visiting Vanuatu.
“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.” Sam Harris
The cost of time-wasting at work
AUSTRALIANS are getting more productive in the workplace but time-wasting still costs organisations $87 billion a year, a new report claims.
The average amount of time wasted in the workplace has fallen by 4 per cent since October 2011, the Ernst & Young Australian Productivity Pulse report found. That may not sound like much, but it’s not a bad boost considering Australian workplaces have been operating in a declining productivity environment for about 10 years, Ernst & Young managing partner Neil Plumridge says. Read more.
More photos from the BrainArt Project event in our Facebook page. Exploring your creative thinking by understanding your brain better and the pleasures in life.
This type of feedback satisfies the soul. Thanks Sam Fonte.
Rule your mind or it will rule you
Fantastic “coloured” ink pressings by Flutter Lyon in preparation for tomorrow’s BrainArt Project launch.
