I never knew

I mentioned this in conversation last week; any subject becomes interesting when presented by a super passionate person. Here are a few examples from the ever excellent TED conference.

Robert Ballard

If you only watch one of these, make it this one. This is a guy who’s PASSIONATE about his work. Extremely interesting stuff about our oceans and some crazy numbers and examples on what we don’t know about them.

Nathan Myhrvold

The former Microsoftie and bonified genius on his life of fascinations. (side note : must have made for an annoying sound level when he was having conversations with Bill Gates, how come nerds have voices like these?)

Benjamin Zander

Music, the love of music and how to interpret / appreciate classical music.

Wade Davis

He’s got a bit of a weird rythm to his speech but some great experiences and thoughts concerning the Worldwide web of belief and ritual.

I’m not a job board type of blog but this one is just too well written (and Akoha is a good bunch of people) and funny to pass up. Akoha are looking for a community gardener

When you walk past, crying babies begin to burble. You call people and they hear a smile over the phone. Your emails cause people to forget their troubles. When friends ask for help, you’re always willing to lighten their load and brighten their day. You make the sun shine and the grass green and the birds sing.

This presentation by Phil Fish would play very well and fit right in at TED methinks.

[Update] Took out the embedded video, WTF is with the autostart??

Phil’s a co-founder of Kokoromi.

(The video can be found here.)