Slow Down Your Day with BirdNote Radio

A couple hundred large brown cranes in flight over a harvested cornfield, gray skies in the background.

Imagine the sound of Sandhill Cranes, a group of dozens of the large gray birds, flying overhead in the sky during their migration.

I’ve heard that trilling sound hundreds of times when I’m birding on the back dirt roads of Michigan.

Long before I can spot the birds.

That sound, and many like it, is why I take two minutes during my day to slow down and listen to a BirdNote radio show. Continue reading Slow Down Your Day with BirdNote Radio

TEDxDetroit 2019 Returns November 6: Call for Speakers, Early Bird Tickets Available

David Zinn uses his colored chalk to create sidewalk art

Save the date! TEDxDetroit returns to the Motor City with a day of inspiration, ideas, and innovation on November 6, 2019.

This year’s event returns to the historic Masonic Temple in downtown Detroit.

The one-day conference brings together entrepreneurs, creators, designers, makers, doers, artists, and geeks talking about and sharing positive ideas for the world from Detroit. Continue reading TEDxDetroit 2019 Returns November 6: Call for Speakers, Early Bird Tickets Available

3 Ways to Disagree Productively and Find Common Ground [Video]

Julia Dhar

At times, it seems there’s nothing we can agree on.

Whether you’re discussing a new product feature with your team or talking politics at the table during your family holiday dinner, tempers can flare and biting words can leave us frustrated and angry.

Public discourse is broken. We feel it everywhere.

Continue reading 3 Ways to Disagree Productively and Find Common Ground [Video]