Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

This talk is having a very common point with Elizabeth Gillbert's talk; that there is no single author of good idea; and if that is true; you need to keep working the idea in the background, and keep connecting.

The TEDx event model is interesting, but it is still taking too much time to set up. Joining other's people's event seems a good way out: PanSci's gathering. Or organize "inspiration night", where interesting people comes and share ideas. Another way will be keep attaining different interesting event.

- How to find high quality event at low cost(time, cost); how to make most of the event( talk to people, debate ideas)


- Ideas comes from connection; not alone (the rise of coffee shop)
- Slow hunches; takes years to come;

- American scientist listening to the signal of Sputnik; experts join with experts and figure out the position of the satellite-> later figure out GPS.

Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius

Great encouraging talk to keep programming. I am pretty frustrating by the current quiz, but maybe I need to remind to myself that you have to let genius works with you. All you can do, is keep doing your part of the work: practice.


- Author of eat pray love
- Fear that the highest point has passed
- Association with creativity and depression

- How to deal with this depression?
- Ancient Greece: Creativity does not come from oneself's, but comes from demon
- Ancient Roman: Creativity comes genius (spirit that lives inside the wall that will help the artist)
-> Artist is protected, does not take all the credit, can't take all the blame

- Now: the artist is been the genius; instead of been inspired -> ego, unmanageable pressure

- Explain the creative process this way;
- Looking for a piece of a poem

- Catch the poem by its tail

- Idea that comes from a source

- Tom, Instead of panicking; he just look up on the sky: "can't you see that I am driving"; released the genius inside; a conversation with the genius. 

- If the book isn't brilliant, it is not entirely my fault; but I am still writing because this is my job.

- dancer lift up on fire, people will say: "Allah, allah, allah"; an expression that now becomes "olay olay olay" (bull fight)

- the trick is the next morning, when the dancer wake up; and find out that he is not the portal of God anymore

- Don't be afraid; continue to do your dance anyhow

Olay (keep showing up)

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!

- The smartest local people knew better how to solve problem than you; instead of starting initiative, think of how to support their cause.

-> counter case: would it be too small/customized service; impossible to scale? 

- People are important, nobody start company along.

Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability

- Connection: why people can't connect -> shame
- shameful vs. full-hearted: Courage, Compassion, Connection to yourself, Vulnerability

Vulnerability as necessity: the vulnerability to reach out, to trial and fail, to say I love you first, to make attempt.

- been turn down
- been layoff
- initiating sex

You can't selectively turn off (numb) these feeling without numb other good things, too (gratitude);

side effect:
- try to make uncertain certain
- blame, a way to discharge pain and discomfort
- perfect

wired for struggle, but deserved to be loved.

love with our heart, even though there is no guarantee.

Julia Sweeney: Letting go of God

- Age of reason, 7 years old.
- Change of birthday.

- "Did you really believed in that God love you for all his heart?"

David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust

- feces, urine, blood, vomit, rotten flesh, many sexual act, diseased appearance
 Disgust that has something to do w/ survival.

- Disgust thing touch a clean thing; clean thing become disgust.

- Disgust sensitivity has a general pattern: conservative people are more easily disgust. 

- People who have viewed disgusting things became conservative. (Even if it is just a reminder to wash hands.)

Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!

- anonymous: hacker who have a political agenda. They are providing a service to prove that security is useless. They are protecting the internet from the government.

- Demand of security vs. Freedom

- Hacker Profiler Project (UN operation)

- CarderPlanet by a group of Ukrainian hackers. Buy sell credit cards info. Supermarket for cyber criminal. Faced Challenge: How do you do business with the hackers?

-> The escrow system: (Stolen Credit Card #) Customer -> Officer -> Vendor (Money)

- 150,000 dollars/ week; not an advance programmer

- Hackers are only one element in the eco system. And the most vulnerable one.

- China and Russian are mobilizing hacker, making them to use.

Relentlessly obsessive about something. Just looking for a chance to work for something good.