My Bloglog

Conductive Leadership

What is embedded below is a very subtle but extremely enjoyable talk on using conducting styles as examples of leadership styles.  The lesson is taught through a series of videos of great conductors.  (Of course now I want to go and find the full movies of each of the snippets – the music is beautiful.) [...]

A Little Bit of Mind Share

Today I happened upon a few things relating to the mind, and how it analyzes data. The first is a TED talk by Beau Lotto on Optical Illusions and how they show what we see:

It was fascinating to see how our eyes, or rather our mind, reinterprets color based on the context in which it [...]

The Daily Blog – Me Today

Once again it is quite late to be going to bed, and I am writing up my post for the day.  A couple of years ago I did a month of “Me Today” videos.  Each day I would record something on video and post it up to Viddler.   With the me todays the idea was [...]

The News will Find Me – But what will I hear?

One of the comments that I keep hearing about news these days is that if the news is important I’ll find out about it.  More and more people are choosing their community as a filter for information.  In Leo Laporte’s talk on New Media he said “If it is important I’ll find out about it [...]

The Power of Limitation

I’m just back from two days of Yom Tov (Jewish holiday).  During Yom Tov and Shabbat I am offline. Yom Tovs show up around three times a year, but Shabbat shows up every week.  There are a whole host of things I don’t do on Shabbat with regard to using electricity, adjusting fires, driving, traveling [...]

The Father of the Rothschilds

This week we read a story about Maier Anschel Rothschild – the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

This story is taken from volume 4 of The Storyteller by Nissan Mindel

Goldie’s Stories – A Little Light Dispells a World of Darkness

This week we read the story that is in the epilogue of the book Truths Revealed: Modern Stories of Miracles & Faith which is written by a friend of mine. It is a story about darkness and light.

This story is from the epilogue of the book Truths revealed: Modern day stories of faith & miracles [...]

Goldie’s Stories – Episode 23

In today’s story we complete the stories from Legends of Judah the Macabee with the story of the Miracle of Chanukah.

If you haven’t caught the whole series here are the links to the series in order.

The Rise of Antiochus EpiphanesThe HellenizersAntiochus Takes ActionThe Death of Eleazar the PriestHannah and Her 7 SonsRebellion in ModiinThe [...]

Goldie’s Stories – Episode 22

Today’s story is a continuation of the book, Legends of Judah the Macabee, Today we read chapter 8 – Judah the Macabee goes to war.

This story comes from Legends of Judah The Maccabeeby S. Skulsky

Goldie’s Stories – Episode 21

Today we continue the daily story from an adaptation of Aggadot Yehuda Ha Makkabi. Today’s story is about the passing of Matisyahu.

This story comes from Legends of Judah The Maccabeeby S. Skulsky