Monthly Archives: April 2020

ZoomReel 2020: Episode 1 – Macro Views of a COVID World

110 Years from Pathé…Zoom – It’s inTALKsicating! Not sure if your brain is in a swirl after a month of Zoom – webinars, interviews, town hall meetings, breakout group think networking and cocktail hour conversations, but I decided this past weekend to step into a cone of silence long enough the digest what I learned.

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Call for a Compassionate Economy, It’s Time-2

Wachet auf ! Ruft uns die stimme ! (Awake, the voice is calling us !) In 1599, Lutheran pastor and hymn writer Philipp Nicolai published his musical offering Wachet auf as an expression of his compassion for others afflicted by the plague that hit his town Unna, Germany the year before. There are many other

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Call for a Compassionate Economy: It’s Time -1

In 2001, the first major read that awoke my consciousness further onto the global social issues of an aging society was a book titled Longevity Revolution by Theodore Roszak. Nearly twenty years later, I still find smart ideas, futuristic perspectives, small and rich gems from Roszak, that suddenly over this last two weeks have become

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Stanford Longevity Design Challenge 19/20 – Winners.

Reducing the Inequity Gap: Designing for Affordability Under that theme, the top three winners of the 7th annual Design Challenge at the Stanford Center on Longevity were announced today. Following this contest since its inception in 2013, for fun I always review the finalists and choose my top three, and compare to the actual outcome.

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