Jeff Schechtman's "Talk Cocktail"

"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

2014 National Book Award Winner, Jacqueline Woodson

Recently we spoke of the 50 Anniversary of Freedom Summer and the early flowering of the civil rights movement. Much has been written of th...

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Language and Cultural Evolution

When we do think about the state or origins of language, we often think about it as something based in the distant past. But language is...

Monday, November 17, 2014

For the Military-Internet Complex, everyday is Cyber Monday

There is virtually no aspect of life today, not impacted by the internet. From setting the thermostat in our house, to the games we play, t...

Cheryl Strayed's WILD

Back in the 1940’s theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the serenity prayer. You all know it. It tells us to accept those things that we can’t ...

Gus Speth explains why the Environmental Movement still matters

Perhaps part of what plagues us when we think about most issues today, is that we tend to see them in very myopic ways. The world is a more...

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Technology will keep us together

As we listened to election results earlier this month, the one thing we heard over and over again is the slicing and dicing of the electorat...

Leading with Intention

In a business environment as data driven as ours is today, it’s not surprising that we don’t view success through the lens that Fitzgerald u...

A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World

One of the foundations of the changing nature of education, is the idea of deeper learning. Direct, hands on mastery of content, though sol...

The quest driven life

To dream the impossible dream has been the great engine of progress in the world. From the early explorers, to scientists and engineers, to...

Saturday, November 15, 2014

The Sounds of Silence...Deaf Culture and what it means to hear

Remembering the early days of the cell of phone, we all remember, “can you hear me now.” For most of us this was modern nuisance. But for ...

Friday, November 14, 2014

The Uncensored History of the Food Network

If the past 30 years of television has been about anything, it’s been about specialization. While ESPN was the leader and Granddaddy of spe...

Thursday, November 13, 2014

How many scandals can we understand at once?

If you’ve ever borrowed money for anything, from a mortgage to a student loan, you’ve been impacted by LIBOR. The London Interbank Offered ...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Rules for Assassins

Throughout history, from Cesar thru Lincoln, from Archduke Ferdinand and Gandhi through the Kennedys and Malcolm X, a bullet has changed th...

Monday, November 10, 2014

Ratchets, Hatchets & Pivots

We are in the midst of a great migration to cities. The number of farms and people engaged in agriculture continues to decline. Yet human ...

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Why Motivating People Doesn't Work

Todays workplace bears very little resemblance to that of our parents. It’s multi generational nature, its focus on employee empowerment an...

Friday, November 7, 2014

Love, Sex and Popular Culture in 21st Century America

Back in the early 1960’s the world took note of the decadence of life in the Italian capital of Rome, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Inspired...

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The making of Super Althletes

Almost no aspect of life has not been touched by the forward march of science and technology. The world of sports is no exception. When w...

Monday, November 3, 2014

Just how absurd is life on the West Bank?

The Middle East is always ripe with stories. Unfortunately, few get to the heart of the absurdity of the human condition there. In much th...

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About

Jeff Schechtman: Napa, California, United States; I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.

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