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
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]
The Dixon Ticonderoga.
I can still see the bright yellow Dixon Ticonderoga pencil with the perfect sharp tip sitting on my third grade desk as I waited for my teacher to hand out math tests.
My pencil always had to have a sharp tip.
Which meant I spent a fair amount of time sharpening it at the pencil sharpener, much to my teacher Mrs. Simpson’s frustration.
Before she could pass the tests out to my row, I picked up my pencil, twirled it around with my fingers, switched it to my left hand, and started tapping it on the palm of my right hand.
And that’s when it happened. Continue reading TED Talk: Why the Pencil is Perfect [Video]