The Doers Club

How DIY design:
(1) gave a teenager from Malawi electricity, and
(2) can help transform Africa.

Read more here. Via Design Observer

Yasmin spoke at TED KL

BBC documentary on Cosmetic Surgery in Malaysia

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How Propaganda Became Known As Public Relation

"When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And 'propaganda' got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words 'public relations'."
- Edward Bernays

The Best (and Worst) CEOs. Ever.

Guy walks into a bar and declares that Henry Ford was the best CEO ever, the way somebody from Baltimore might insist Johnny Unitas was the best quarterback of all time. A woman on a bar stool calls him on it. “Hell, no! Lou Gerstner was the best pure manager to run a company!” Other patrons chime in: Bill Gates! Sam Walton! Epithets fly. Someone gets punched.
Read the rest at Portfolio.com

A Chili Sauce to Crow About

It burns your body, not your tongue.
Read in full at NYTimes.

Smurfs

You can make 70 grand by just talking about smurfs. The power of personal branding.