# ted talk (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ted talk. Page: Feed: --- ## [Purpose Isn’t Always Joyful](https://georgecouros.com/purpose-over-joy/) _2026-08-18 · George Couros · George Couros_ Purpose, not constant joy, is what sustains meaningful learning. In education and life, purpose helps us embrace challenges, grow through struggle, and find lasting fulfillment. ## [Creating Intentional Connection and Community Through Technology](https://georgecouros.com/sign-language-and-human-connection/) _2026-08-11 · George Couros · George Couros_ There are two main reasons you should use technology in school: to deepen learning and build human connection. If you don t leverage it to do either of these things, I \[ \] ## [To Grow the Strengths of Your Students, See the Strengths in Your Staff](https://georgecouros.com/staff-strengths-moving-forward-together/) _2026-08-04 · George Couros · George Couros_ What if the fastest way to help students grow isn't by focusing on their weaknesses, but by building on their strengths? Discover why the most effective schools begin by recognizing and developing the strengths of their staff, creating a culture where everyone feels valued, grows with confidence, and helps others do the same. ## [Are Your Questions Helping You Move Forward or Stand Still?](https://georgecouros.com/how-you-ask-questions/) _2026-07-28 · George Couros · George Couros_ Are you asking questions to stand still or to try and move forward? This is something I have been thinking about a lot in my work, as I \[ \] ## [Using Technology To Humanize (Revisit)](https://georgecouros.com/using-technology-to-humanize-revisit/) _2026-07-21 · George Couros · George Couros_ In 2018, I wrote the post below titled Using Technology to Humanize that someone recently reshared with me. This is long before the AI conversation was seemingly everywhere. I wanted \[ \] ## [3 Questions Before You Launch a Portrait of a Graduate](https://georgecouros.com/portrait-of-a-graduate/) _2026-07-18 · George Couros · George Couros_ Is your Profile of a Graduate improving learning experiences in your community, or is it simply describing aspirations without the aligned actions to bring them to life? \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \[ \] ## [The Most Powerful Story Isn’t Only Yours to Tell](https://georgecouros.com/recommended-by-owner-story/) _2026-07-14 · George Couros · George Couros_ “It is essential that you share YOUR story!” I hear the above statement often (and have probably said the same) , but it is missing a piece, as this \[ \] ## [The Experts Are Already in the Room](https://georgecouros.com/the-experts-are-already-in-the-room/) _2026-07-07 · George Couros · George Couros_ How can school leaders empower the experts already in the room? There is an idea that I write about in “Forward, Together” which I call the “Educator Paradox” when \[ \] ## [In a World of Changing Technology, Human Connection and Reading Should Endure](https://georgecouros.com/human-connection-reading-haidt-part-3/) _2026-06-30 · George Couros · George Couros_ In this post, I explore the following: Can we leverage technology while keeping human connection and reading at the center of learning? This post is part 3 of \[ \] ## [The Challenge Isn’t AI, It’s Teaching Students to Navigate It](https://georgecouros.com/navigate-technology-in-an-ai-world/) _2026-06-23 · George Couros · George Couros_ This week, I share some thoughts on the question, How can educators help students navigate AI responsibly? Last week, I wrote an initial response to Jonathan Haidt s latest TED Talk, \[ \] ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/s6qJInYF4K18) _2026-06-23 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [The Easier Technology Gets, the More Challenge Matters](https://georgecouros.com/the-easier-technology-gets-haidt/) _2026-06-16 · George Couros · George Couros_ Technology and AI are becoming increasingly easy to use, but that doesn't mean learning should be. Drawing on insights from Jonathan Haidt's TED Talk, this post explores why helping students embrace challenge, sustained effort, deep thinking, and meaningful work may be more important than teaching them the latest tools. In a world built for convenience, the ability to do hard things could become… ## [Cover Up: Your Lawyer Is Showing – How professional conditioning shapes creativity and communication](https://elevare.style/cover-up-your-lawyer-is-showing/) _2025-10-26 · Emerald · Elevare_ Every time I try to write something creative, my inner legal mind objects. Relevance. Scope. Hearsay. Legal training doesn't fade, it follows you into every sentence. On why professional conditioning shapes how we communicate, and why that's not a flaw. ## [The Age Illusion: Why “You Look So Young” Isn’t the Compliment You Think It Is](https://elevare.style/the-age-illusion-why-you-look-so-young-isnt-the-compliment-you-think-it-is/) _2025-10-18 · Emerald · Elevare_ We praise men for ageing into authority and tell women to pause at the point of decoration. In The Age Illusion, Emerald de Leeuw Goggin examines how beauty standards quietly limit professional power and why every decade can, and should, be a new phase of leadership. ## [The Cult of Constant Improvement and the Courage to Shine Anyway](https://elevare.style/the-cult-of-constant-improvement-and-the-courage-to-shine-anyway/) _2025-10-12 · Emerald · Elevare_ In Cult of Constant Improvement and the Courage to Shine Anyway, Emerald de Leeuw-Goggin explores the quiet forces that keep women from stepping fully into their power — from the endless cycle of professional self-improvement to the pressure to conform and the subtle “sparkle-dulling” that follows visibility. Drawing on her own experience leading global AI governance, she argues that success isn’t… ## [Camera-Ready Makeup: 5 Stage-Ready Essentials for Public Speaking](https://elevare.style/camera-ready-makeup-5-stage-ready-essentials-for-public-speaking/) _2025-10-05 · Emerald · Elevare_ After hundreds of keynotes, panels, and studio lights, I’ve tested more makeup than I’d like to admit. These are the five products that actually hold up on stage — from the cult-classic Estée Lauder Double Wear foundation to the €5 Essence Lash Princess mascara. They’re reliable, travel-friendly, and proven to survive long event days and bright lighting. Some are high-end, some are under €10, but… ## [3 Things you should know about preparing for a TED talk](https://elevare.style/3-things-you-should-know-about-preparing-for-a-ted-talk/) _2025-09-12 · Emerald · Elevare_ Note: This was a fairly popular post of mine dating back to 2020. Posting here so you can find it if you too are preparing to give a TEDx talk. This is a piece in a series on preparing and delivering a TED talk. There is not just one way to prepare, this was my process. I hope you find it helpful in preparing for a TED talk or any other talk you want to give without any support from a Powerpoint… ## [How to Lead Strategic Change (When Half Your Team Thinks It’s a Terrible Idea)](https://elevare.style/how-to-lead-strategic-change-when-half-your-team-thinks-its-a-terrible-idea/) _2025-09-12 · Emerald · Elevare_ You need to get your team on board with a significant strategic shift. Maybe it's adopting new technology, expanding into a different market, or restructuring how work gets done. Whatever the change, you're facing the same challenge every leader encounters: people don't automatically embrace new directions, even when they make logical sense. ## [Dressing for the Message: How I Choose Outfits for Different Speaking Contexts](https://elevare.style/dressing-for-the-message-how-i-choose-outfits-for-different-speaking-contexts/) _2025-09-12 · Emerald · Elevare_ Your outfit is making a statement before you even open your mouth. ## [So you want a career in privacy and data protection? – Part I](https://elevare.style/so-you-want-a-career-in-privacy-and-data-protection-part-i/) _2025-09-12 · Emerald · Elevare_ Note: this is an old post, originally published on July, 2022. Reposting here as it may still be useful. Ten years ago I started my career in privacy and data protection when started writing my LL.M thesis on the first published draft of the GDPR. I’ve gotten so much from the privacy community that I want to mark my decade in privacy by giving back. This post will be part of a series on the topic… ## [Getting My colours Done in Seoul: Why I’m a True Spring (And Why That Matters)](https://elevare.style/getting-my-colours-done-in-seoul-why-im-a-true-spring-and-why-that-matters/) _2025-09-12 · Emerald · Elevare_ For my friend s birthday, I decided to treat both of us to something we d never done before: professional colour analysis in Seoul. I d stumbled across an article in Harper s Bazaar about Korean colour consultancies and figured it would be a fun cultural experience. What I didn t expect was to walk away with genuine insights about \[ \] ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5q1E4GisO7gd) _2025-09-12 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [Beyond Bullet Points: The SOS Method for Memorable Panels](https://elevare.style/beyond-bullet-points-the-sos-method-for-memorable-panels/) _2025-09-12 · Emerald · Elevare_ You have 4 minutes to make your mark. The moderator just introduced you. Three other experts sit beside you, all armed with impressive credentials and polished talking points. The audience is checking phones, half-listening, chugging coffee, waiting for someone to say something worth remembering. This is your moment. Don t waste it rambling through background context \[ \] ## [The Ancient Ones](https://www.methanist.com/the-ancient-ones/) _2025-07-12 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ What do you want to be made of, when the meat fails and the curtain doesn’t rise again? You will die. There’s no glitter here. No hopeful Instagram filter to soften the glare. No TED Talk punchline, no therapeutic euphemism, no legacy journal full of self-affirming platitudes. Just the bleak, elegant fact that one day \[…\] ## [The Elegy of the Known](https://www.methanist.com/the-elegy-of-the-known/) _2025-07-05 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ Because we’d rather die predictably than live differently Ah, the fabled last words of every empire on the brink, every deluded CEO polishing their golden parachute, and every middle manager rearranging deck chairs on a vessel that’s already made passionate contact with the iceberg. Back in my final corporate exile—an institution swollen with Cold War \[…\] ## [The Gospel of Less](https://www.methanist.com/the-gospel-of-less/) _2025-06-28 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ A Midlife Lament in One Act, Three iPads, and Zero Chickens In 2010, I committed an act of spiritual fraud. I bought an iPad. Yes, I know. Not exactly the kind of thing you’d chisel onto a tombstone. Not unless your aim is posthumous ridicule. It’s also not a fact that gets you laid, promoted, \[…\] ## [Beauty in the Ashes: A Love Letter to the Few](https://www.methanist.com/beauty-in-the-ashes-a-love-letter-to-the-few/) _2025-06-21 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ A requiem from the strange lands of uncurated living Let’s drop the pleasantries. Reality is not the Eurovision Song Contest. No glitter cannons will herald your spiritual awakening. No rousing chorus will auto-tune your despair into meaning. No backup dancers will spin in reverence of your third existential collapse. You won’t get a standing ovation \[…\] ## [Florence from Memory](https://www.methanist.com/florence-from-memory/) _2025-06-14 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ Inner Fortitude in the Age of hyper-sensitive outrage addicts Is All Lost? The short answer is: yes—if you’re the kind of dopamine addict who needs five likes and a comment thread before breakfast just to feel marginally real. Then yes, friend, it’s all lost. Irretrievably. Stick a fork in it. The empire is not only \[…\] ## [The Politics of the Statistically Extinct](https://www.methanist.com/the-politics-of-the-statistically-extinct/) _2025-06-07 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ Dispatches from the Libertarian-Minarchist Schnitzel-Making Fringe The Politics of the Statistically Extinct Subtitle: Dispatches from the Libertarian-Minarchist Schnitzel-Making Fringe Let’s exorcise the formalities right at the top: I’m Austrian. Which means that every few years, I’m expected – like a well-trained schnitzel-fed automaton – to waddle obediently into a voting booth and choose from… ## [Why I’m not attending the June 3 meeting](https://www.epatientdave.com/2025/06/02/why-im-not-attending-the-june-3-meeting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-im-not-attending-the-june-3-meeting) _2025-06-03 · e-Patient Dave · e-Patient Dave_ I was invited to attend a policy discussion at the White House complex tomorrow, June 3, 2025. The subject is important to me access to our health data, plus some items about publishing data about quality of healthcare and about patient safety. These are things I ve advocated on for years. But I decided I \[ \] ## [Bureaucrats in the Machine: Globalism’s War on Builders](https://www.methanist.com/bureaucrats-in-the-machine-globalisms-war-on-builders/) _2025-05-31 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ Or: How We Traded Builders for Bureaucrats and Called It Progress Let’s not mince words: capitalism, in its current flavor, is about as entrepreneurial as a DMV line on Ambien. No matter how often the TED talk crowd tries to rebrand it with latte-fueled jargon, the cold truth remains—what we call “capitalism” today is not \[…\] ## [We blew past the point of no return – and lit fireworks on the way down](https://www.methanist.com/past-the-point-of-no-return/) _2025-05-24 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ How collapse became a lifestyle brand, why denial is the new national pastime, and what’s left when the lights go out. How do I feel? Not merely today — no, I mean in the grand, cosmic, thunderclap-of-history sense of “what in the seven gilded hells just happened to the last five years?” Well, thank you \[…\] ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fC09UDP57NQr) _2025-05-24 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [Did I Miss the End of the World?](https://www.methanist.com/did-i-miss-the-end-of-the-world/) _2025-05-17 · ruhuadmin · Methane energy_ A Gen Xer’s shot at Navigating the Ongoing Clusterfuck Surprise, surprise. The void coughed me back up. Call it a mid-life software update… that crashed halfway through install. It was just me, sparring with my personal demons. We’ve settled into a tense ceasefire—so far. Anyway, who gives a shit? Meanwhile, the world went full clown \[…\] ## [HHS has ditched transparency on “grants, benefits, or contracts” rules. Watch out!](https://www.epatientdave.com/2025/04/08/hhs-has-ditched-transparency-on-grants-benefits-or-contracts-rules-watch-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hhs-has-ditched-transparency-on-grants-benefits-or-contracts-rules-watch-out) _2025-04-08 · e-Patient Dave · e-Patient Dave_ As the graph at right shows, the biggest part of the US budget is Health Human Services. And five weeks ago they announced they ll reduce public participation in their spending decisions: what they support and what they cut off. This is a desperate mistake for the public s interest, and thus for patients, because it s \[ \] ## [The AI Revolution, Revisited: It’s Succeeding at Real Work](https://www.epatientdave.com/2025/03/26/the-ai-revolution-revisited-its-succeeding-at-real-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ai-revolution-revisited-its-succeeding-at-real-work) _2025-03-27 · e-Patient Dave · e-Patient Dave_ When The AI Revolution in Medicine came out in 2023, I called it the best book I’d seen on AI in healthcare, because it resonated deeply with realities I d heard in thousands of conversations at hundreds of conferences. Today we can say with confidence that co-authors Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Zak Kohane correctly anticipated \[ \] ## [“The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited”: new podcast series updating this great book, two years on. The intro is out.](https://www.epatientdave.com/2025/03/07/the-ai-revolution-in-medicine-revisited-new-podcast-series-updating-this-great-book-two-years-on-the-intro-is-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ai-revolution-in-medicine-revisited-new-podcast-series-updating-this-great-book-two-years-on-the-intro-is-out) _2025-03-07 · e-Patient Dave · e-Patient Dave_ I'll be a guest in a new five part podcast series on this book. Exciting! Hosted by Peter Lee, president of Microsoft Research and lead author of the book. ## [“Your Map to the Future”: learning to deal with disturbingly uncertain times](https://www.epatientdave.com/2025/01/27/your-map-to-the-future-learning-to-deal-with-disturbingly-uncertain-times/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-map-to-the-future-learning-to-deal-with-disturbingly-uncertain-times) _2025-01-27 · e-Patient Dave · e-Patient Dave_ This is my first post in months, and isn t specific to healthcare. I m doing it for a couple of reasons. First, this is an important new book by one of the sharpest minds I ve ever known, and second, it s about a dangerous situation that s driving a lot of people nuts. The danger is real, and \[ \] ## [Free kidney cancer patient information day from the hospital that saved me. Please share.](https://www.epatientdave.com/2024/09/21/free-kidney-cancer-patient-information-day-from-the-hospital-that-saved-me-please-share/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-kidney-cancer-patient-information-day-from-the-hospital-that-saved-me-please-share) _2024-09-21 · e-Patient Dave · e-Patient Dave_ As long-time readers know, in 2007 I nearly died from a severe case of kidney cancer. One thing that saved me was being very well informed by information I got from an online patient community information that was valid but did not exist in the medical literature. (They re now at SmartPatients.) So my hospital, \[ \]