I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with TED, but I have found it to be a great source of information on a variety of topics.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
Expect more of these pieces to come. The piece below is from Alain de Botton, philosopher and writer. In his address he discusses the ideas of success and failure and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments.
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