Reblogs for 20100825

On Sep­tem­ber 20, live in New York and web­cast around the world, TEDx­Change will exam­ine the UN’s Mil­len­nium Devel­op­ment Goals, or MDGs. (Watch TEDxDubai’s video, above, for a preview.)

Estab­lished 10 years ago in Sep­tem­ber 2000, the eight MDGs are an auda­cious set of goals for chang­ing the world — with an equally auda­cious tar­get of 2015 to reach them all. The UN has been track­ing progress on the MDGs since 2000, watch­ing as the eco­nomic slow­down pushed some goals back (like expand­ing access to edu­ca­tion), while other goals inch for­ward (like increas­ing access to ante­na­tal care). But through­out the list, much work remains to be done. You can find out more about each goal below; fol­low the links to reach the data-packed MDG Mon­i­tor mini-site for each goal, with stats, maps and indi­vid­ual suc­cess stories:

1. Erad­i­cate extreme poverty and hunger.
2. Achieve uni­ver­sal pri­mary edu­ca­tion.
3. Pro­mote gen­der equal­ity and empower women.
4. Reduce child mor­tal­ity.
5. Improve mater­nal health.
6. Com­bat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other dis­eases.
7. Ensure envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­ity.
8. Develop a global part­ner­ship for development.

Cohosted by TED and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun­da­tion, TEDx­Change will look at how the world is doing on these goals so far, and ener­gize the world for next five years.

You can watch TEDx­Change live via web­cast (visit the Face­book page to RSVP for the web­cast), or you can join (or host) a local TEDx event.

And you can join the con­ver­sa­tion on the MDGs right now on the new Gates Foun­da­tion com­mu­nity page »

Some­times peo­ple ask what hus­tling is. This great poster by Joey Roth pro­vides one answer:

The “hus­tler” image on the right is pretty much what I try to do every day: lots of work, lots of mes­sag­ing. The mes­sag­ing isn’t always directly related to the work at hand—sometimes I’m sup­port­ing other peo­ple with their own hus­tling. But on a good day, there’s plenty of work and and plenty of messaging.

Another way to look at it is:

Style with­out sub­stance = flash. (Also, no one respects these people.)

Sub­stance with­out style = unknown. (Every­one who knows these peo­ple respects them… but not many peo­ple know them.)

Style with sub­stance = impact. (The goal.)

Remem­ber when we talked about strat­egy and tac­tics? The inter­est­ing thing with hus­tling is that peo­ple can copy your tac­tics with­out under­stand­ing your broader strat­egy. Char­lie Gilkey recently referred me to a sim­i­lar quote from The Art of War: “Every­one knows my tac­tics, but no one knows my strategy.”

When you take the time to build some­thing worth­while instead of just tak­ing up space, you engage with strat­egy and tac­tics every day. And you hustle.

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Book Update: Thanks for all the com­ments, emails, Twit­ter mes­sages, and courier pigeon deliv­er­ies for the 99 free books last week. It was a three-hour project to pick the win­ners, but Libby and the biased judges man­aged to over­come. If you got an email from us this week­end and sent your address via the Google form, your book will be on the way tomorrow.

Every­one else, the book will be avail­able every­where start­ing Sep­tem­ber 7th, and I really appre­ci­ate your support.