Those moments in life when you just need stability – a place to land safely. David C. Baker on choices, opportunities and how you move through life. 

Normally I would have a running list of things for you to peruse, but today, this video and this website are enough. The site is one you’ll want to visit for inspiration and you can see by a few of my favorite quotes (below) why I love it so much.

Take some time to visit Humans Of New York

“I never had any family growing up. But I still went to school everyday. One day, when I was in eleventh grade, my English teacher came up to me and said: “If you graduate, I’ll adopt you. I’ll show you the life. You’ll do things you never dreamed of.” And he kept his promise. He made it legal and everything. On the day I graduated, he was the only family I had there. My father’s taken me everywhere since then. I’ve done all kinds of things.”​

“I’m supposed to be better than I am.”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t behave like I’m expected to. But one day I will.”

“My town in Colombia is very beautiful. I don’t travel because I want to leave my home. I travel because I need to know why I’m staying.”

“What’s your greatest struggle?”

“My sister and I are nearly 60. My mother is 83. We’re not destitute or anything, but we don’t really have a stash. So there’s not really room for anything to go wrong. And all of us are aging, so I have plenty to worry about. I’ve really followed my whims in life, which has been great. But while my friends were buying houses, I was travelling the world and having experiences. It’s been great, and I’ve seen a lot. But now I’m seeing the benefits of the other road.”

“One day really soon, I’m hoping to map out the places homeless people stay. Then get a whole group of skaters to deliver bags filled with necessities.”

Rory Sutherland – electronic cigarettes, praxeology  and the power of reframing – delivers a great and funny TED Talk on perspective. 

- How to Be the Best Version of You

- Igniting the relationship between food and your senses, beyond just taste. Heinz Beanz Flavour Experience - a project matching five different varieties of food with matching bowls and a musical spoon for a combined visual, tactile and aural effect. A great thing for difficult to feed kids. Great inspiration to create this into a product beyond the Heinz Beanz project.

- I think this is THE best App I’ve come across recently. Automatic is an app that monitors your cars health and gives fuel efficiency tips. This is great for those drivers who like to just drive and not pay attention to how their vehicle behaves day-to-day. 

- How in the world do you buy presents for kids when you have no experience with them? Aimed at the 20-45 year old professional set who either don’t have the time or the familiarity to shop for children. NeverMissGift is an App that caters to the kiddie demographic and provides ideas based on the childs details. Easy peasy!

After commuting day in, day out, things can get stagnant. Wouldn’t you want to have a choice that offered up some excitement? It’s exactly what Volkswagon offers with this installation of the ‘Fast Lane’. The sense of fun, and speed being promoted for the Polo GTi. The campaign also showed other ways of ‘spicing up daily life’ through skateboards attached to shopping carts and elevators tricked out as space shuttles. All of it offering a memorable way of commuting that adds flavor and fun to your life.

- Catchbox is a great and sustainable way for local fisherman to continue sourcing the fish naturally available. A non-profit organization that offers a delivery of fish on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to their subscription base.

- A collection of promotional Startup Videos - if you need some help with yours.

- We all need a little help with remembering things – RefreshMe is a great app to remember where we last left off in a conversation. Perfect helper for meetings and business conversations.

- How Pixar made Monsters University, its latest technological marvel

- From NASA, Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes

Adding images to the information you deliver means a higher rate of retention by your audience.

- How to work with creative people

- The best way to make the world a better place – crate a space for everyone to state their ‘why’ and ‘what’. A bold statement of your vision for the future. Slashpurpose.org let’s you create your own vision page and share it with everyone. What’s your why?

- Okay, this is a pretty cute way to protect your wrists while on your laptop – Fluffy Animal Wrist Cushion

- Quib.ly – a great site that lets parents keep up with emerging technologies for their kids

Since people are already taking pictures of food, why not take advantage and set up a ‘you ask and we answer’ scenario. Good for the customer and good for your business. This is a great example of social media done right!

Ask CT Food is a campaign on Instagram by a Swedish grocer helping adventurous foodies try recipes at home.

You photograph an image of the dish at the restaurant on Instagram, hashtag it ‘@askctfood’ and the company will reply with a list of ingredients and directions on how to make the dish. Each ingredient is hashtagged so that you can see what it looks like when you come to buy it.

Great engagement with brands and people.