TED assembly
How I wish that instead of dull sermons from the chaplain or stern slobbers from the headmaster, assembly at school had been a TED video (or better yet, a live speaker of that caliber).
What a way to start the day.
Here’s a particularly interesting one I just watched, prompting further reading and me seeking to reconnect with an entrepreneur in the electric car industry:
Shai Agassi discusses the economics of mass electric car adoption in a scheme involving removable electric batteries and universal charge points that completely rethinks the economics of running a car. You get paid if you have to change your battery more than x times a year.
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