Benjamin Franklin on Hindsight:
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one had a mind to do.
–Quoted by John Kay in Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly. Kay refers to this hindsight rationalization as “Franklin’s Gambit”.
I recently saw the performance by Kseniya Simonova from Ukraine's Got Talent (2009), which she won with her performances of sand stories. This one is the telling of a story from World War II, which you can see in the video was very moving for those in attendance. The video is simply riveting.
The following is an *unofficial* list of TEDx Manitoba participants and their online coordinates. These are the people who — someplace on Twitter — have references that at least imply they’ll be there. The list was built from my TEDxMB Twitter List, so the “@” links and “#” hashtags below are Twitter links. The Bio’s are mostly from Twitter as well. I have only included the speakers for whom I have social media particulars rather than just websites, since (a) the official TEDx Manitoba site already has that info and more, and (b) my intent was more toward connecting/following through social media.
Chris Guillebeau’s first book, The Art of Non-Conformity, is not a business book, at least not per se. It’s more of a manifesto for living differently, in which Guillebeau makes a passionate appeal for people not to accept the role of living out a life of what’s expected, but to chart your own unconventional course instead.
