“Every single life matters equally and infinitely.”

This TED talk by StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, recipient of the $1 million TED Prize in 2015, is so very important. 

Lest we forget, heed Walter Benjamin a century ago, reminding us why storytelling matters more than ever in the age of information. 

Download the app from Isay’s announcement, which allows you to record stories that matter to you for preservation in the Library of Congress, here.

“We need to click with compassion… Just imagine walking a mile in someone else’s headline.”

Monica Lewinsky’s courageous TED 2015 talk on being patient zero of public humiliation online, why shaming isn’t only an act of violence between individuals but a massively exploitive business model for the media industry, and what we can do, together, to stop it. 

As Chris Anderson remarked when he introduced Lewinsky onstage, “Please don’t underestimate for one minute the courage it takes to give this talk.” 

Complement with some thoughts from yours truly on hope in the age of cynicism. 

At TED 2015, Bill Gross shares this pause-giving finding about the key factors in success. Couple with Alan Watts on the art of timing. 

At TED 2015, Apple product designer Tony Fadell tells the heartening story of inventor Mary Anderson, who created the world’s first windshield wiper at the turn of the 20th century by using the designer-inventor’s essential cognitive tool: seeing an invisible problem, not an just an obvious problem, and solving it.

Couple with the story of another pioneering female inventor: Hedy Lamarr, who created a system for remote-controlling torpedoes that became the foundation for wifi technology.