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TED with Breakfast

A documentation of TED talks I’ve seen while enjoying breakfast foods. Continue reading

Type: Documentation

I am always looking for new sources of inspiration - for content that can teach me a little something new, give me a few ideas for how I can be better and smarter or generally help me see the world from a new point of view. One resource that seems to cover all of those basis and then some is TED.


As such, I have started to make it a daily practice to do something great for myself both in mind and body each morning by waking up a little bit earlier and enjoying a new talk from TED with a delicious breakfast (now tea). Here’s a running log of my mornings with these fantastic nuggets of inspiring content. So far, it's been an amazing way to start the day and get into thinking about solving challenges in new way at work and in life.

- 026: “Daniel Libeskind’s 17 words of architectural inspiration” with a fuji apple and something else later.
- 025: “Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning” with a homemade rosemary ham scone.
- 024: “David Gallo shows underwater astonishments” with organic fig waffles and a cup of strawberries.
- 023: “Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light” with apple cinnamon oatmeal and lemon tea.
- 022: “Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense” with breakfast TBD when I get to work…
- 021: “Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning” with a strawberry smoothie.
- 020: “The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames” with apple cinnamon oatmeal (really exited about this one!)
- 019: “Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain” with breakfast TBD when I get to work…
- 018: “Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole” with apple cinnamon oatmeal and an orange.
- 017: “Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time” with a scrambled egg sandwich.
- 016: “Ueli Gegenschatz soars in a wingsuit” with apple cinnamon oatmeal.
- 015: “John Hodgman’s brief digression” with breakfast TBD when I get to work.
- 014 “Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2″ with papaya and the last of my cherries.
- 013 “Richard St. John: Success is a continuous journey” with cinnamon oatmeal and cherries.
- 012 “Robert Full: Learning from the gecko’s tail” with a strawberry banana smoothie.
- 011: “Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn” with a chocolate chip peanut odwalla bar and cherries.
- 010: “Joachim de Posada says, Don’t eat the marshmallow yet” with rosemary scrambled eggs and cherries.
- 009: “David Gallo shows underwater astonishments” with a croissant.
- 008: “Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity” with a rice cake and a fuji apple.
- 007: “Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere” with apple cinnamon oatmeal and a fuji apple.
- 006: “Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight” with wheat toast and red raspberry jam.
- 005: “Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen” with cherry vanilla yogurt and an apple.
- 004: “Mary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm” with a bowl of cherries.
- 003: “Dan Barber’s foie gras parable” with apple cinnamon oatmeal and a bowl of cherries.
- 002: “Dan Ariely asks, are we in control of our own decisions?” with vanilla yogurt & a bowl of cherries.
- 001: “elizabeth gilbert on nurturing creativity” with sausage scrambled eggs & a bowl of cherries.