anti-CEO

I'm convinced. If I get an opportunity, I'd love to use Hamdi Ulukaya's playbook.

The anti-CEO playbook
Hamdi Ulukaya

Profit, money, shareholders: these are the priorities of most companies today. But at what cost? In an appeal to corporate leaders worldwide, Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya calls for an end to the business playbook of the past -- and shares his vision for a new, "anti-CEO playbook" that prioritizes people over profits. "This is the difference between profit and true wealth," he says.

How will humans evolve. In 100 years.

While the world changes quickly around us, we wonder whether the human will also evolve. And how.

In small ways, we have been evolving. We have pacemakers and prosthetics and hearing aids, and ... What's likely to be different is "need" v/s "Wants". Most of the current evolution is to become closer to normal. We already have non-medical necessity enhancements, like botox, beauty plastic surgery, ...

And we're close to this becoming a lifestyle choice for those who can afford it.

Futurist Juan Enriques discusses this ethical quandary.

What will humans look like in 100 years?
Juan Enriquez

We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals -- futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, Enriquez sorts out the ethics associated with evolving humans and imagines the ways we'll have to transform our own bodies if we hope to explore and live in places other than Earth.

Winning an argument

I've always thought that I was good at logic and am able to make powerful arguments based on logic. However in the last few years, I've found that on many if not most occasions, inspire of the argument being solid and valid, it doesn't seem to move the needle on the other side.

And while I don't think this talk on winning arguments is likely to change my recent poor record, it does give an interesting insight and hope.

"... And I've realized the question is not how to win every argument. It's how to get back up when you do lose. Because in the long run, good arguments will win out."

How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere)
Neal Katyal

The secret to winning an argument isn't grand rhetoric or elegant style, says US Supreme Court litigator Neal Katyal -- it takes more than that. With stories of some of the most impactful cases he's argued before the Court, Katyal shows why the key to crafting a persuasive and successful argument lies in human connection, empathy and faith in the power of your ideas. "The question is not how to win every argument," he says. "It's how to get back up when you do lose."

Classical music

My wife thinks I'm tone deaf. And its one of the things that I don't disagree with her.

Until today. When I heard this line

"So I'm going to go on until every single person in this room, downstairs and in Aspen, and everybody else looking, will come to love and understand classical music. So that's what we're going to do."

And I had hope.

The transformative power of classical music
Benjamin Zander