Luck is where Preparation Meets Opportunity: CMU’s Randy Pausch July 12, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Career, Video, Trends, floridacreatives, Disney, Teaching, Storytelling, Love , 1 comment so farSo many great things in this video - it’s an hour and fifteen minutes, but you really should watch this.
Not only did Randy achieve his childhood dreams, but he has taken his process for doing so and boiled it down to this talk, which we can now pass on to others. This guy is dying, yet he is so positive. I love it and I love this talk. Thanks @supaben34 for bringing up my day (actually, my whole year).
Some key points:
- The Head Fake: we don’t send kids to sports to learn about football.
- To achieve your dreams, you have to get over the brick walls. The brick walls are there to weed out the people who don’t want to achieve their dreams.
- Even if you are denied at first, you can still reach your dreams through karma and more brick-wall-jumping.
- Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is freaking awesome. So awesome, they’re spreading their labs to other continents, and five companies have letters open guaranteeing to hire their students.
- There are some great examples of interdisciplinary stuff - putting left- and right-brained people on the same teams.
- It’s nice to have metrics telling you how well you work with others.
- Always put others before yourself.
- If you are patient, everyone will impress you. Just keep waiting.
- I am going to have to check out the Alice project, like a lot
BlogOrlando, Pleasure Island’s Last Hurrah July 9, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : News, Orlando, Disney, OrlandoScene, BlogOrlando, Storytelling, Boing Boing , 3 commentsThe dates for BlogOrlando have been announced. Held at Rollins College from Sept 25-27th, with the main event being held on Saturday the 27th (not Friday like previous years). If you haven’t been to BlogOrlando yet, it’s a really fantastic introduction to the world of blogging, and there should be lots of fun surprises this year. Last year there were some great discussions, and a few keynote presentations by folks like Shel Israel and Chris Huer (google their names).
Josh Hallet, the man behind the unconference, says registration should be open soon. You should be able to take care of that at BlogOrlando.com
If you didn’t notice it yet, the very last weekend Pleasure Island will exist is the same weekend as BlogOrlando - as of Sept 27th (I’m assuming it will be open that day) the attractions will all be closed in favor of something more “family friendly”. Considering the number of cameras and recording devices that seem to follow BlogOrlando participants wherever we go, wouldn’t it be nice to have a big blogger party out there at the Island?
Save the Adventurer’s Club! Kungaloosh!
Muppet Mobile Lab gets ready to roll through California Adventure February 3, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Links, Puppets, Trends, Disney , 1 comment so far
From Jim Hill:
this next phase of Disney’s “Living Character Initiative” program. These folks were just standing around at the party, minding their own business. Only to have this rocket ship-shaped craft roll up right next to them. And the next thing they knew, these remote controlled AA versions of Bunsen & Beaker would begin interacting with them.
Hooray Disney for actually leveraging your purchase of the Muppet characters.
