The Mac Turns 40, Bill Gates on Being Optimistic and More

Welcome to?The?Art?of?The?Impossible, a weekly newsletter where I unearth five pieces?of?content which I hope will both inspire?and?embolden you.

PODCAST

As we celebrate 40 years of the Mac this week, I wanted to share my very first podcast episode with the one and only Addy Hertzfeld who was part of the original team. Listen here / read the transcript here.

PS the video of our full interview will be up on my YouTube soon - subscribe here to be the first to watch it!

QUOTE

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

INTERVIEW

Bill Gates on The Rest is Politics Podcast, hosted by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart.

A great interview where Bill discusses reasons to be optimistic, the concerns he has, conspiracy theories and more.

Watch here.

BOOK

Women Mean Business by Edie Fraser Robyn Freedman Spizman and Andi Simon

We don’t have enough books highlighting women in business so I am looking forward to reading this book which shares over 500 insights from female leaders.

Female trailblazers are transforming women’s lives one voice at a time. Gathered together, like never before, these diverse women become a bold blast amplifying the path to progress for women in the world of business. Business needs women, and women mean business. This book provides over 500 insights from women you may not have in your own life when you need support. The voices of mentorship fill these pages to help you achieve your personal goals at every stage of your career.?This book will help uplift and accelerate your career.?

Buy the book here.

WATCH

Insanely Great: The Apple Mac at 40

On the 40th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh's launch, Computer History Museum celebrates one of the most iconic and impactful products ever created. Members of the original hardware, software, design, and marketing/PR teams including Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, and Mike Murray, as well as insiders and experts Chris Espinosa, Guy Kawasaki, Steven Levy, and David Pogue, share stories and discuss the impact of the Mac.

Watch the recorded livestream here.

EVENT - Danielle Newnham Podcast LIVE

Infectious Generosity with TED’s Chris Anderson at Kindred (LIVE recording of Danielle Newnham Podcast). Get your tickets here.

A live podcast recording consisting of an hour long deep-dive interview with author and Head of TED, Chris Anderson, in conversation with podcaster and author, Danielle Newnham about his new book - Infectious Generosity.

There will be a session of audience Q&A with Chris at the end.

Infectious Generosity

“Generosity is at the heart of being human. It’s how we’ve co-operated, innovated and grown as a civilization. It’s what makes me into we, net takers into net givers, selfishness into selflessness.”

Infectious Generosity is the idea that through the power of the internet, small acts of thoughtfulness spread to change lives at a scale never experienced before. An initiative housed in TED, this is what they believe to be the ultimate idea worth spreading.

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Pray love, says “this book was a much-needed gift to my weary and news-battered heart”.

This will be an inspiring and thought-provoking evening, for those who want to be a part of a world-shifting and hopeful movement; a movement that believes the best of humanity is yet to be realised.

About Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson has been Head of TED for 20 years and has taken the company from a small, exclusive conference to a global phenomenon that reaches millions of people through its iconic TED Talks.

A visionary leader, Time magazine named him one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Get your tickets here and hopefully see some of you there!

Thank you for reading?the?newsletter?and?for listening to?the?podcast, and?if you enjoy them, please do share with your network - my goal is to have these stories reach as many as possible so that others can be inspired too. And if you have two minutes, please do leave a review for the podcast wherever you listen to it- it would mean the world to me and helps others to find it too.

Danielle