❀ the cult of: ➥motivational speakers ➥life coaches ➥personal growth gurus ➥new-age charlatans ➥AWESOMENESS FEST

i kinda want to

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/against-ted/

At TED, “everyone is Steve Jobs” and every idea is treated like an iPad. The conferences have come to resemble religious meetings and the Ted talks techno-spiritual sermons, pushing an evangelical, cultish attitude toward “the new ideas that will change the world.” Everything becomes “magical” and “inspirational.” In just the top-ten most-viewed TED talks, we get the messages of “inspiration,” “astonishment,” “insight,” “mathmagic” and the “thrilling potential of SixthSense technology”! ...

There are consequences to having this style of discourse dominate how technology’s role in society is understood. Where are the voices critical of corporatism? Where is there space to reach larger publics without having to take on the role of a salesperson, preacher, or self-help guru?

do we have a TED thread? (no thread police)

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

What’s infuriating is how Silicon Valley capitalism consistently attempts to sell itself as outside or even above corporatism. In announcing Facebook’s IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, whose company has consistently violated user privacy in the name of profit, stated that “we don’t build services to make money.”

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Starting today, MindValley will be one of the first companies to be completely devoted to sharing everything about their business in an open source model. This means every template, every meeting, every spreadsheet about how they run their business will be shared online.
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this is biiiiiiiiig

infopreneur

lol that is just complete bullshit

is it tho

the music in that youtube... wow.

"the software movement"

lol i missed that, that's good

damn son i cant believe they're just giving away all this information... for free.

next level

loving the idea that it was the zone of fake-o internet pyramid marketing that just suddenly changed in 2008 and they had to adapt. like how bad can your tunnel vision about the world possibly be.

"this shift..."

dude

you should peep the info they're sharing, it's pretty impressive stuff

http://www.mindvalleyinsights.com/the-cheese-factor/

How can we independently verify this "everything is open source" claim?

disgusting xp

they're insane for giving out all these business secrets FOR FREE

it's crazy how many successful businesses are going to occur now

this could save the economy

this is it this is happening

• Happiness
• A Noble Mission
• The Gamification of the Workplace
• A Focus on Personal Growth
• Tribal Dynamics

hey i found something!

http://www.bilconference.com/

ilx should throw a conference, pay for hosting costs

http://bilconference.pbworks.com/w/page/49917283/BIL%202012-%20Speakers

the (former?) mayor of beverly hills!

nina hartley!

Jeremy Donovan Acord

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Talk: What do the Social and Cognitive Sciences Tell Us About Being Sex Positive Activists?

Jeremy Donovan Acord is a sex-positive feminist and language geek living in Venice beach, surrounded by cats and queer feminist sex workers. A computer scientist by training, programmer by trade, he Erlangs among Rubyists for a local start-up. He swears by Carl Sagan, and is likely to be found in his natural habitat, buried up to his cheekbones in a book.

wow ned's really had a lifestyle change since i last checked in with him.

Mencius Moldbug

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Talk: How to Reboot the US Government

Is your government infected with viruses, worms, malware and spyware? Do you keep calling tech support but end up playing phone tag? Did your brother-in-law who's supposedly this big expert come over last year to fix it, but only make it worse? Do you feel frustrated, confused, apathetic and annoyed? Does your stomach cramp up every time you hear the word "change"?

Neighbor, we have just the red pill for you. Don't ask what's in it. You don't want to know. Here's a glass of water - don't think, just swallow.

Mencius Moldbug of Unqualified Reservations is your gateway to the lost world of pre-democratic thought.

^^ btw this guy is one of the internet's premier scientific racist goldbug types

xp lol yeah i bet that guy is sex-positive

can that really be his name

"sex hacker"

so this thing is pretty porny huh. er 'tantric' i guess

surrounded by cats and queer feminist sex workers

speakers list is a goldmine

http://reidaboutsex.com/

lol how is this not from bhideas

http://reidaboutsex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/NinjaLoveBanner.jpg

OMG Jeremy Donovan Acord needs to be played by Martin Starr in The Jeremy Donovan Acord Story: Erlanging Among Rubyists

The Jeremy Donovan Acord Story: Buried Up to My Cheekbones
The Jeremy Donovan Acord Story: Surrounded by Cats

fair trade porn!

He swears by Carl Sagan

buried up to his cheekbones

moldbug

mencius moldbug

this is an elaborate prank

his blog is really longwinded fyi

probably one for the rightwingery thread tho

from the gawd vishen's fb page:

Best email I got all day ------- :-)

Bro - tell your team that the work they did in creating the creation method is outstanding.

I'm not talking about just the course... and I'll get to that in a second... I'm talking about the stylistic design, the copywriting ... It's all amazing and inspiring. I am one of the pickiest people you'll know about what is 'good quality' and what is crap quality... and your team is consistently on fire.

And get this: I don't even NEED something like the creation method. It is absolutely awesome material... I bought the teleseminar and appreciate the content due to how relevant it is for so many people... It will truly unleash some fire in them. For me, I didn't really feel it was for me simply because I can get myself 'in that space' already. Do I take the step to get a refund though? No! Instead I find myself pulling out my credit card and ordering the upsell!

I'm hypnotized Vishen!

Hypnotized!!

Give your team my gratitude.

They deserve all the gratitude in the world for the work you're doing together.

With Love & Gratitude,
Sean Patrick Simpson