June Cohen: What Can We Learn From Near-Death Choices TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk. This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below.
Entenda como funciona um supermercado colaborativo, que não visa ao “lucro pelo lucro” – Ideias Verdes Ideias inovadoras são aquelas que desafiam a lógica do que está estabelecido entre as pessoas. E por serem inovadoras, quebram o conforto do que é conhecido e propõem uma forma diferente (e melhor, muitas vezes) de pensar e agir. Quando o assunto é supermercado, as coisas funcionam mais ou menos assim: existe um dono. Este dono paga funcionários que mantêm os processos em funcionamento (limpeza, estoque, logística, caixa…). O espaço fica aberto para receber clientes, que escolhem os produtos dispostos em prateleiras, pagam por eles e vão embora.
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The Integral Movement: Past, Present, and Future In this exhilarating dialogue, Roger Walsh offers one of the finest overviews of the integral movement that we have ever seen—where we're at, where we've been, and where we're going. Now more than ever, the integral movement is poised to make a tremendous impact upon the world. Listen as Roger describes the current status of the movement, identifies some potential traps that we may fall into, and suggests some of the key ideas that the integral approach has to offer the rest of the world. Most importantly, you will learn what you can do in your own life, work, and play to help bring integral perspectives and solutions to a world that so desperately needs them. Total running time: 2 hours 35 minutes written by Corey W. deVos
No More Grimy Thrift Store Finds: The Polished Re-Commerce Model Is Here Thrift shopping is a harrowing experience. Anyone who has ever stepped inside a thrift store knows it is a haven of ill-fitting clothes, mysterious stains and the overwhelming smell of mothballs and sadness. Luckily, fashion re-commerce websites are now changing the thrift shop game, utilizing the powers of mobile usage and an active fashion community to give the entire experience a much needed makeover.
Andrew Z. Cohen: The Meaning of Your Life Watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Ric Elias is a very lucky man. And it's not only because he survived a near-death experience when his plane (U.S. Handybook Hoovers Up $10M To Bring Its On-Demand Cleaning And Household Services To 5 New Cities Are you unhappy with your cleaning service? Your local handyman? Thanks to the advance of the Web and adoption of mobile services, a handful of startups have popped up to take advantage of an opening they see in the fragmented and slow-to-change home services space. As many local cleaning and repair services continue to live offline, offer atrocious websites (or none at all) and show up late, Handybook launched in June of last year to help people find better, trustworthy professionals to take care of their household needs. After raising $2 million in seed funding last year, Handybook announced today that it has received a significant, new influx of capital, led by General Catalyst Partners, Highland Capital Partners and TechStars co-founder David Tisch, among others.
June Cohen: What Can We Learn From Near-Death Choices TED and The Huffington Post are excited to bring you TEDWeekends, a curated weekend program that introduces a powerful "idea worth spreading" every Friday, anchored in an exceptional TEDTalk. This week's TEDTalk is accompanied by an original blog post, along with new op-eds, thoughts and responses from the HuffPost community. Watch the talk above, read the blog post and tell us your thoughts below.
Attracting Our Beloved We are very happy to feature the following excerpt from Robert Augustus Masters' new book, Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Awakened Monogamy, now available on Amazon. Image by Vivi-Mari Carpelan [+view gallery] So many yearn to be in a genuinely intimate relationship—a relationship that consistently enlivens, deepens, and awakens—and wonder why they continue to find themselves alone or in relationships that don’t really work for them (but which they keep hoping will). So many are having a relationship not with the other—be that other their partner or their hoped-for beloved—but instead with the other’s potential.
The Evolution of Intimate Relationship Robert Augustus Masters shares the introduction to his new book,Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Awakened Monogamy, now available for preorder on Amazon. Image by Mark Henson [+view gallery] Intimate relationship has over the last four or five decades evolved so far from its long-established ways—mutating in diverse directions—that its very nature and structuring, once a largely unquestioned given, is clearly up for some deep questioning and reformulating. Reformulating, revisioning, restructuring, reinventing—how we tend to look at intimate relationship is changing almost as rapidly as intimate relationship itself. One result of this is that many of us do not have a particularly clear view of intimate relationship and its possibilities.
What am I good at? - 10 ways to spot your strengths Are you surprised when you’re told that you’re great at a particular thing? Our strengths can be so instinctive it’s easy to overlook them or assume we’re all the same. It’s worth having a think about the signs below to make sure your strengths are just as obvious to you as they are to other people. The strength signs
Fitocracy They were a cliché. As kids, Brian Wang and Richard Talens were “those videogame-playing geeks of the world” who preferred Xbox to exercise. And it showed. Talens was a 230-pound teen. Wang was skinny and weak. But in college, they both started getting into exercise and eating right. Talens dropped 70lbs. Wang got buff. As it turns out, their gamer roots served them well. Once out of college, they made the connection between working out and playing games. “There are lots of parallels,” says Wang, noting that both are goal-based and achievement-oriented, involving competition, collaboration, and encouragement. They saw fitness regimes as “levelling up your character in real life.” The pair built an online game, Fitocracy, to help people visualize a better version of themselves. “We want the game to hit those dopamine receptors and make people feel like they can actually take care of it themselves,” says Wang. When they launched last year, there were plenty of fitness apps on the market, “Mostly workout trackers and journals,” according to Wang, “nothing sticky or motivating.” Fitocracy aims to get you “addicted to your fitness” by reimagining it as a video game. It’s deceptively simple. After players set goals, the game tracks their progress so they can see results, and offers motivating incentives. Naturally, there is a strong competitive element; players often check the site multiple times a day to see how they’re stacking up against friends. Don’t people ever fudge the truth to look good? Wang is doubtful: “If you cheat, you’re missing the point.” by carolinewatson May 10