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TED Talks
Listening a wonderful presenter, talking about fascinating topics. Talks in Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) assembles remarkable speaker from around the globe to give talks about things that matter. This is food for the spirit and the brain, a way of becoming aware about what is happening with the world, what is wonderful in humanity, and what are the big challenges in the near future. A daily TED is what you need to feed yourself with a bit of awareness.
APCE
The French agency for the creation of enterprises (Agence pour la Création d'Entreprises) provides a lot of fundamental information about the steps needed (and this is generic and applies not only in France) for creating enterprises. That is, it provides a detailed guide for entrepreneurs from the idea, through the market study to the legal and fiscal establishment of the business. If you read French and you are think of/ want to create an enterprise, this is a must read.
Seth Godin's Blog
The Seth Godin's blog is a place where you could find good advice to start, keep going, and run a business. These advices are not the typical business style advices, but rater innovative ways to catch up with you client / stakeholders based on awareness and common sense. Why to read Seth? He has very good ideas and experience that worth spend a few minutes a day reading (or a few hours if you like ;-) ).
Books
Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying
In 1992, scientists and philosopher from the western part of the world met the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet. This book spread the knowledge exchange and wisdom resulting from this meeting that faced the western and eastern cultures. It spread the voices of science, wisdom and awareness to go deep and clear into questions about the self, the dreams, the functions of sleeping, and the meaning of drying.
Ethical know how (Ética y acción)
Know how and know what, two different knowing connecting the same spheres. In this book, Francisco Varela explores challenging problems that face contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science. How can science be brought to connect with experience? First, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not formal actions of conscious judgment but part of a habitual nexus of systematic self-organization. Second, creating an ethics adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental self, a stable subject, or a soul.
L'entreprise Neuronale (The neural enterprise)
Have you ever imagine an organization with flexible and dynamic structure where every employee is happy about his job and aware of his role and importance. This book contains the clues driving the transition to this king of organizations — neuronal enterprises. It presents a new way to see enterprises and organizations by challenging the stereotypes, using the reason as the driver for actions, and managing the emotion to improve results and finally the life. Sadly, as far as I know, this book is only in French
Loisir
Home
Emotive, impressive, inspiring. These are three words, out of many that describe this movie. It is the attempt of many represented by Yann Arthus-Bertrand to make us aware of our Home, and how rapidly are we destroying it. It is an outcry for conscience, for reason and change.
The man from the earth
Yes, you read right, it is not the man form the space but form the earth. Not green men coming from the space but rather a single man that has always been in the earth. This movie shows pure science fiction, without any special effect or computer-generated graphics. The story starts when John Oldman unexpectedly resigns from the University; his startled colleagues impulsively invite themselves to his home, pressing him for an explanation. But they are shocked to hear his reason for premature retirement: John claims he must move on because he is immortal, and cannot stay in one place for more than ten years without his secret being discovered. Tempers rise and emotions flow as John’s fellow professors attempt to poke holes in his story, but it soon becomes clear that his tale is as impossible to disprove, as it is to verify. What starts out as a friendly gathering soon builds to an unexpected and shattering climax.
The end of Mr Y
(From Publishers Weekly) In Thomas's dense, freewheeling novel, Ariel Manto, an oversexed renegade academic, stumbles across a cursed text, which takes her into the Troposphere, a dimension where she can enter the consciousness, undetected, of other beings. Thomas first signals something is askew even in Ariel's everyday life when a university building collapses; soon after, Ariel discovers her intellectual holy grail at a used book shop: a rare book with the same title as the novel, written by an eccentric 19th-century writer interested in "experiments of the mind." The volume jump-starts her doctoral thesis, but her adviser disappears. And when Ariel follows a recipe in the book, she finds herself in deep trouble in the Troposphere. Her young ex-priest love interest may be too late to save her. Thomas blithely references popular physics, Aristotle, Derrida, Samuel Butler and video game shenanigans while yoking a Back to the Future–like conundrum to a gooey love story. The novel's academic banter runs the gamut from intellectually engaging to droning.