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I'm passionate about

Saving the World for fun and our future families.

An idea worth spreading

Not ready to share this yet. I obviously haven't been through enough near death experiences quite yet. Working on saving the world and the world isn't quite ready for this idea. Stay tuned I have to get a system in place before this is released.

Talk to me about

Remuneration and Reward, Financial Incentives, Fitness, Obesity, Human Contact, Education.

People don't know that I'm good at

I'm an open book, Everyone close to me knows my good and bad attributes.

My TED Story

Led here through a Tony Robbins Tweet.

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• A comment on Talk: Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

  Feb 1 2012: Must have been part of the 10% external. This talk made me happy.

• A comment on Talk: Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0

  Jan 20 2012: I don't agree that religions are effective as Alain describes. If they were, world peace would have broken out 6000 years ago and we would now not even know what war is. Karen Armstrong would point out that compassion and the golden rule are at the heart of all major religions and yet we are arguably on the brink of a 3rd world war. It doesn't seem effective to me that religions can't even get across the central theme of their organisation. By contrast, corporations seem to be very effective at embedding what is at the core of their being. Profit. Unlike religions they have only had a few hundred years in which to do it.
  
  Great talk however. I have made it a favourite.

• A reply on Talk: Damon Horowitz calls for a "moral operating system"

  Jun 9 2011: Found Michael Sandel's lecture series excellent. Well worth a watch.
  
  Guess I'll try the Philosophy of death.

• A comment on Conversation: How do we capture the collective wisdom and engage the global TEDx communities?

  Mar 7 2011: Use it as a model, shrink it, then insert it into the internal corporate leadership training system where it may have some teeth.

• A reply on Conversation: How do we capture the collective wisdom and engage the global TEDx communities?

  Mar 7 2011: Who do I write the $15M cheque out to?
  
  It is valid to criticize TED, everything can be improved. I think that organizations external to where real the money transacts like TED are only really great for inspiration. Meritocracy of ideas is a bit of an illusion. Worth Spreading? According to who? Who knows if your idea is about to save the world? Buckminster Fuller was a cool dude so if you are following in his footsteps I guess your heart is in the right place. For all our sakes, Good Luck!

• A comment on Conversation: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?

  Feb 25 2011: Democratization of internal business processes over and above the ultimate democratic external business process of consumer choice. I'm not sure how recognized the Semco experiment is but transitional technologies will steer us towards this style of management and ultimately undo corporatism's dark side.

• A comment on Conversation: The west can no longer claim to be an honest broker in the search for peace in the Middle East.

  Feb 25 2011: I have given thought to a plot to a movie which analyzed the aftermath of a terrorist event which left Jerusalem uninhabitable for 10,000 years. The protagonist being the athiest perpetrator of the crime. A thought-provoking movie in the vein of "Watchmen".

• A comment on Conversation: Should Governments start to measure what really matters to people - their happiness? Or should they stay out of such a private matter?

  Feb 25 2011: I've often pondered if the trick to life is to maximize the area under your personal graph of happiness perception(introspection) vs time across a lifetime. Assume you have zero happiness before you are born and zero happiness once you are dead. This would involve me assessing how happy I am right now on a regular basis. I guess the idea is to add all the graphs together for a nation. Now that is a trick. Prescribing an intervention for improvement an even better trick. How about we try Low interest rates to induce rising house prices? Everybody happy? Hmmm, seems like we tried that.

• A reply on Conversation: Has a TED Talk ever influenced you? How?

  Feb 24 2011: I empathise with your frustrations. For my project, what used to take me two hours to explain, including how it worked technically, I have broken down to seven different elevator pitches of 60 seconds and now contains nothing of how it works. I choose which elevator pitch I use depending on what angle I think the recipient of the pitch can appreciate the problem. Good luck and look forward to seeing your TED talk on your project in the future.

• A comment on Talk: Noreena Hertz: How to use experts -- and when not to

  Feb 24 2011: Excellent Talk. In the vein of Barry Schwartz Loss of Wisdom. If we don't do our best to exercise wisdom, we will loose it. Questioning Expert's advice and even not following it at times may occasionally lead us to a sub-optimum result for an individual but the process of doing so will strengthen society as a whole.