"Mindwalk"- One of the two most intelligent movies I've ever seen

Mindwalk, a movie made in 1990.  A poet, a politician, and a scientist walk around the unique island fortress of Mont Saint Michel in France, and talk.  That's it, that's the movie, they walk around and talk.

A Facebook friend in Spain, whom I've never met in person, posted a photo of Mont Saint Michel today.  That reminded me of a movie from 1990, that I first heard of in about 1994.  This is one of the two most intelligent movies I've ever seen, the other being What the Bleep Do We Know?  .  I heard of this movie from this guy, about 15 years after that video was shot.  Bryan Gregory, best known as one of the founding members of The Cramps, was every bit as sarcastic when I worked with him in the mid and late 1990's, but also incredibly intelligent, and still highly creative.  He told me about this movie one day, at work, when we both worked in a porn store.  The movie blew my mind.  I just watched it again, now almost 20 years after I first heard about it.  The ideas expressed in the movie stand up well to the test of time.  

We need to move past stereotypes, like your image of "punk rocker" or whatever came into your mind when I said I worked in a porn store.  I probably had more intelligent conversations at that job than any place I worked.  Really.  And, as Sonja says in the movie, we also need a new way of looking at the world.  If you're a person who thinks, this movie is well worth watching.  

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A solid look at Business Disruption ahead...

I had never heard of Patrick Bet David before I bookmarked this a day or two ago.  This guy's an entrepreneur, he's obviously involved in today's rapidly changing, tech enabled world, and he makes A LOT of sense.  I don't agree with everything, but that's the point.  He's making me think about  change that I haven't dreamed of... and I think about these types of things continuously.

As I've written before in this blog, I think we're in an 80 year (or so) period where our new technology is disrupting every business model, and every aspect of society.  I call this The Big Transition.  This video, which is a year old, challenges us to consider major disruption in 10 industries and one other area.  Here are the industries he sees changing and/or disappearing:
Restaurants, Movie theaters, Telecommunications, Wallets, Personal cars, Retailers, Insurance, Traditional journalists, College sports, Gas stations.  Bonus: Politics.

I don't agree with everything, and he's coming at this from a completely upscale financial viewpoint.  There are more poor people than ever, there will be millions more in the future, and they 1) need many of these things at some level (like Walmart and cheap restaurants), and 2) millions of late adapters and the financially left behind people slow "progress" down dramatically.  That said, he makes a lot of valid arguments worth considering, especially if you're involved in these areas.

Things have changed dramatically in the last 30-40 years, and more things will change faster in the next 20 or so years.  In any case, employee or business owner, these ideas are worth the time to listen to and mull over.