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I'm passionate about

people, connecting, authenticity, family and friends, my children, seeking out fulfillment and happiness, TED, wine, learning, challenging preconceptions, life is serious not yourself

An idea worth spreading

Time is most valuable resource: what is spent is gone. We should use it to seek out happiness and fulfillment for ourselves and others.

My TED Story

In a ever so changing and frenzy world, TED is my bottle of oxygen in which I resource myself. I truly believe that bringing TED into the community makes it a better place. As an active ambassador of TED and talking about the concept during social events, I have come to understand in a different light the motto "ideas worth spreading". Having taken some flak, seen resistance and witnessed some old ways of thinking, TED ideas are indeed worthy to spread.

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• TEDCred score: +1625.10 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• A reply on Conversation: Is America past its prime? DISCUSS WITH Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson in a LIVE DEBATE, Thursday at 4pm Eastern.

  Apr 25 2013: Thanks for the reply.
  Playing devil's advocate and question for both of you:
  - increased productivity, creating more wealth, employment decreasing, prosperity not equally shared: how could the next decade be better?
  
  How could technology help our insitutions and organizations make the shift?

• A comment on Conversation: Is America past its prime? DISCUSS WITH Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson in a LIVE DEBATE, Thursday at 4pm Eastern.

  Apr 25 2013: A connected world with business systemics: shouldn't the theme be: is the world past it's prime? Following Mr Brynjolfsson's remark on “The Great Decoupling”, are you seeing the same trend in Europe, China, Brazil, etc...?
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  A comment on Conversation: If you could choose any historical figure to give a TED Talk, who would it be and why?

  Apr 11 2013: My "historical" line up for a day
  
  Leonardo Da Vinci: innovation and disruptive thinking
  Niccolò Machiavelli: how organizations like TED are influencing politics
  Jim Morrison: musical interpretation Riders on the storm
  Confucius : have we traded human values with technological tweets
  Howard Robard Hughes : startup and entrepreneurship
  Omar Khayyam: mathmatics and religion
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau: climat change and stewardship of the earth
  Elvis Presley: musical interpretation (anyone)
  Martin Luther King: equal citizens
  Cleopatra: women leading organizations
  Frank Sinatra: musical interpretation (anyone)
  Gandhi: changing within
  :)