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Let’s be honest, we are all wrapped up with our everyday live, worrying about money, our career, our love (or not getting enough love), money, friends… you name it. Everyone of us has their own mind full of things that “matter”. “Matter” because, in the end, these are, after all, material matters (mostly are) that don’t really matter in the end, if it would be your last day of your life.

Studies have shown that most people would change their life on the dot, if they would know they only have to live for another month. As always, my first question is, why don’t you live the life that you want to live now? Why wait? Why waste time on things that don’t matter now? What are you waiting for?

One of those people that had a “wake up call” is Ric Elias. Ric was on the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. In this 5 minutes talk, he shares some important experiences with us. My favorite quote; “… I regret the time I wasted in things that did not matter with people that matter…“!

Enjoy the talk and make sure to let me know your thoughts.

Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain gave a very entertaining and enlightening talk about the random kindness on the Internet and how we can all benefit from this worldwide “kindness”.

Listening to his talk, you will also understand why open source works and why people spend many many hours contributing to projects without getting any financial rewards for it. It is the kindness and the good within the human nature to do “good” and to feel “belonging” to a greater good. I guess, open source projects, touch on this very common need of the humans.

I for myself, feel very satisfied to see so many people taking up our Open Source Digital Asset Management and contribute to it in any way possible. At this point, thank you all

Enjoy the talk.

This is another interesting talk over at the TED website entitled “How to read each other’s mind”. Thought I think the title is a bit misleading, the talk goes into how our minds and perception over time changes as we grow up.

After 10 minutes of her talk you get to a very interesting passage where they stimulate a different answer from their test with giving people small electromagnetic impulses to their brain. Now, just think a minute what this could mean and you see the bigger picture behind this. Guess there are many more things going on behind at MIT…

I know that some people don’t like Bill Gates for his work on Windows, but really, apart from that, he is a good guy and deserves all of our respect with what he is doing in this world. It takes a great person to share his wealth and trying to do good for the human mankind.

Thus, but all your prejudice on the side and watch this presentation from Bill Gates during the TED 2009 conference in February 2009. It is worth every minute of your time.