Inequality for All – Where does all the money go?

So where is it that the money from your iPhone really goes?

It’s from the documentary, Inequality for All with Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration.

View a trailer for the film.

Creative advice from Ira Glass

It’s always a relief to find out that successful people once struggled creatively, to know that our heroes sometimes felt stuck, had crappy ideas, and had to fake it until they made it.

Ira Glass (This American Life) was interviewed by Current.TV several years ago about the creative process. It’s a great series to watch.

But if you want to catch just a nugget, view this creative piece from German designer Daniel Sax:

Ditch the PowerPoint

From NPR:

About six months ago, a group of physicists in the U.S. working on the Large Hadron Collider addressed a problem they’ve been having for a while: Whenever they had meetings, everyone stuck to the prepared slides, and couldn’t really answer questions that weren’t immediately relevant to what was on the screen.

The point of the forum is to start discussions, so the physicists banned PowerPoint — from then on, they could only use a board and a marker.

“The use of the PowerPoint slides was acting as a straitjacket to discussion,” says Andrew Askew, an assistant professor of physics at Florida State University and one of the organizers of the forum at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

Could you ditch PowerPoint?

Would you?