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Archive for April 16, 2015
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Video of the Week
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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Can Technology Undistract Us?
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| What makes more money in the United States than movies, game parks and baseball combined? Slot machines. In this thoughtful TEDx talk, designer and computer scientist Tristan Harris argues that our culture has unconsciously turned our mobile devices into slot machines — where instead of coins, we are paying with our time. What if technology could distract us less, and respect our time and attention more? What would that world look like – and how could it be built? How do we measure time spent versus time well spent? |
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
– Ben Okri –
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Old Skool Cafe
As a juvenile corrections officer, it broke Teresa Goine’s heart to see young offenders coming back through the California prison system time and again. Sending these youth back home without a support system to keep them on the right track seemed to be setting them up for systematic failure. Eventually, Goines came up with the idea of Old Skool Cafe, a 1940s-style supper club run entirely by at-risk youth. This film is a voluntary project by Still Motion — the first film in their “Share” project to give back to society by doing what they do best — tell stories. { read more }
Be The Change
Learn more about Old Skool Cafe, which offers more than just jobs for at-risk or previously incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 