Joie de Vivre. What does this idea mean for the key of business success? The hierarchy of needs: low: Survival (physical and safety) - medium: Success (Social belonging and esteem) - high: Transformation (self-authorization). How can this be measured in the workplace? The key to business success lies in the intangibles - Success and more important Transformation. The pursuit of happiness. Measuring gross general happiness versus the GDP."GDP measures everything in short, except what makes life worthwhile." (Kennedy) The Happiness "Emotional Equation": Happiness = Wanting what you have / having what you want. If 64% of all jobs …

Life without lawyers. We need to overhaul and simplify the law in order to release the energy in Americans that is needed for change. The blossoms of law have reached new levels of absurdity. The world has become a legal mine field, and this has changed our culture. People no longer feel free to act upon their own judgment, but instead view the world through a legal microscope - creating a state of complete paralysis. There are rules for, against, and around everything, therefore no one can trust the law, no one can know it! This self-consciousness is death …

What is simplicity? A single simple question always has many answers. Complexity: highly developed. Human cells, traffic patterns, etc. Simplicity: almost non-existent. Binary, google (complex simplicity), etc. Simple things are reliable, predictable, cheap, high performance or value/cost, potential to serve as building blocks. Academics like complexity, and the world reluctantly puts up with it, when really it wants simplicity. That applies to politics, the health system and other fundamentally broken systems in our society. "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Einstein) "You know you've achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more …

"Inspiration comes from a continuum of I don't know". Humans differ genetically from one another by 0.5%. That is 43 hours and 12 minutes of uniqueness per human year. How do unleash this potential? "I don't know". What the world needs now? "I don't know".

The fractal geometry of roughness is a very old topic. It is basically about messes. It's not that roughness is a regularity of order, but vice versa, as the basis of all shapes is roughness. Roughness can be measured by a number, D=practical measure of roughness. Is the Mandelbrot Set the most complex of all mathematical objects? The formula so dry and simple, and produced are shapes of such beauty, almost baroque-like shapes... "Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules without an end..."

"I know I shouldn't say this about one of my own speakers, but I thought Sarah Silverman was god-awful..." - Chris tweeted yesterday after Sarah Silverman's performance. Today he admitted that that was out of line, that he should have known when inviting her that Sarah was going to do her thing. And that only because he hadn't found a way to enjoy Sarah's performance without "reverting to the level of a drunken college boy" doesn't mean that others hadn't found the intellectual way into her work. Sigh...

Natalie has worked for the last six years on adapting children's poetry to music. She loves taking forgotten work off the dead pages and bringing it back to life in music. Excerpts: Little boys don't like to be chewed. I am in love with the janitor's boy - desert isle, a spicy treat. If no one marries me, I'll have a little cottage and a pony on my own. I don't know how you keep on giving.

Eve hopes that girls will start to play, rather than please Three women perform excerpts form her new work "I am an Emotional Creature - The Secret Life Of Girls." A thirteen-year-old Chinese factory worker who makes Barbie heads, who head-sends her thoughts into each Barbie-head she makes. A teenage girl's guide to surviving sex slavery in the Democratic Republic Of Congo. The girl advises: Do not let your brain fool you. It is all really happening. No one can take anything away from you, if you do not give it to them. Refuser. "We are …

AR dome allows gamers to control a flying drone via iphone. The real environment becomes the playground via augmented reality. Yay!

David Rockwell is an architect. He also designs stages. For example, he designed the stage for last year's Academy awards. What no one knew was that the crystal curtain was the hardest part to design, and put through safety, as it crashed down during rehearsal.It was worth fighting for it. After losing his father when he was 3 years old, the family moved to Mexico. David as the youngest child fully identified himself in all things mexican. But while he loved it, his mom could not cope, and when David was 15 years old, his mother took his life. …