Inspiration
Inspiration encountered on the web, life, business, marketing, entrepreneurship, for some ‘get up and go’ juice.
Netflix PLC work on their recruitment and retention policies – strange but intensely interesting hence it goes in this list of inspirational web content.
Dharmesh Shah, a new hero as co-founder of Hubspot. I’ve only just found his website http://onstartups.com, very useful for startups, who’d have thought! This is more for the slightly geeky software people amongst us, but he has great views on blogs and generating leads.Apparently we share heros – Seth Godin, a bit further down the page.
1. Dharmesh Shah Video
2. Lou Carbone. Hero. Everyone who works for a company should watch this…all the way through (1 hrs 14 mins). Exceptional value in his explanation of the customer experience. (sound problems last only a few seconds)
3. Seth Godin. Hero. Marketing genius shares on modern permission based marketing, has good things to say about blog based marketing (it’s in there I promise). (48 mins)
4. Guy Kawasaki. Hero. On entrepreneurship, stunning. (40 mins)
5. Randy Pausch. Achieving your childhood dreams, inspiring and poignant
6. Steve Jobs. Speaking at Stanford, a couple of life lessons – follow your heart
7. Seth Godin, the original and best
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Paul Krugman doing an “Authors at Google” session describing the reasons for the sub-prime mortgage situation of 2007.
A well written account of a blogger fired by CNN. It sums up the sheer bewilderment of the traditional media at the hands of new communications technology.
A presentation by Chris Anderson of Wired and “the long tail” fame. He introduces the concepts behind ‘the economics of free’. The trend for things like computing power and storage becoming close to free, how is it going to affect things? 45 mins.
Vilayanur Ramachandran entertainingly talks about the brain pathways that physically affect the ability of the mind.
Peter Merholz, from adaptivepath, on the product experience. A different way to look at solutions
Christopher Hitchens on his aversion to religion, and whether you agree with his observations or not, it is always healthy to review the worlds most important subject.
Classic Lawrence Lessig presentation, both content and style, on open source and copyright, about innovation. Good stuff.
Thought provoking post and comments about presence and availability from Alec Saunders of Iotum. A communications specific discussion of course.