Ramón de Vries | Dutch Open Source Solutions Consultant

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Today I found this inspiring videos made with street musicians from all over the world.

You can visit their website on http://playingforchange.com.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Af1zc0qhr8o

Watch in full here

http://www.youtube.com/v/xYWPLxVJca0

This might give a good idea where ideas come from….

http://www.youtube.com/v/NugRZGDbPFU

I come from a northern country, far away from the equator. Although raised catholic my surroundings were dominantly protestant. This affected my sense of time. My wife on the other hand was raised on the equator and she has an opposite concept of time. This video explains how different it is and how it clashes.

http://www.youtube.com/v/A3oIiH7BLmg

Is money the big motivator? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t.. Check this video to see what’s motivating us.

http://www.youtube.com/v/u6XAPnuFjJc

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and partner of 37signals gave a very nice and refreshing talk on eCorner. Basicly you should create companies that scale and not impress. Size is not important, profitable is.

Maggie Doyne — Why the human family can do better from The DO Lectures on Vimeo.

Today I found a website from a young woman who really found her destiny. Only 23 years old and with very limited resource she setup a orphan refugee in Nepal. And she really has an impact on many lives in Nepal. Isn’t this something we all deep inside really want to do: have a constructive impact and really matter, even if we don’t have plenty of resources. Maggie is a young entrepreneur how really deserves my respect.

The US is at the edge of collapse, more than 75% of the economy comes from consumers and they don’t produce any physical products. Most Americans have to much debt and will get or already are into serfdom of the banks and credit card companies. So beware and behold of what happens to the Yankees, what is happening in to US will happen to the rest of the world 5 to 10 years later.

So take a look at the documentary “In Debt We Trust” and let this be a warning.

Shai Agassi, a former SAP executive, has a very viable idea how to solve the oil-challenge in our transport system. It is a disruptive but simple idea. Just take a look at the video.