Sunday, September 19, 2010  Competition Encouraged.   Lets use a
very simple example: The Middle East.    Tedx Thisblog  This
blog is definitely a bi-product of watching TED videos and other
inspirational videos (in fact the following speech was written
before I came up with this blog). So here is what I might say If
I had the opportunity to speak at a TED conference (but that
would kill my anonymity):  Well, 18 minutes, isn't much time, so
I'll have to get to the key points pretty quickly. But now I
have to ask myself, what are the key points? Well I guess if I
were to be concise, to be a bit preachy and direct, I would say
the main point, and it's a sort of one-two combo, is change and
imminence.    I have spent the last month watching TED talks
constantly, being inspired (to the point where I was so inspired
I wasn't being all that productive). So the ideas following are
not just the product of someone sitting in a room with a pen and
paper and saying "Where has the world gone wrong!?" Surely I can
see ext