I still love to look up the video of the guy who faked his way into being a TEDx speaker. Dressed up in shitty costume Roman armor and talked nonsense the whole time.
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Love that video. When he cracks himself up saying saying teaching Africans to code or something always makes me laugh.
Sam Hyde.
His short lived show million dollar extreme has some real funny (fucked up) sketches.
TED talks are a drop-in secular replacement for revivals. That's the only reason they exist.
[thoughtful pause as I gaze at the audience]
But maybe we need secular revivals. Maybe you need a secular revival.
I think a lot of people need secular retreats more than revivals. Just a weekend of quiet contemplation, telling stories, and big feelings with people you kinda know.
some are good, but also look out for TEDx which is basically a free-for-all stuff so anyone can make a TEDx talk.
also super relevant https://youtu.be/8S0FDjFBj8o?si=yihB_uoKHpmdqGuy
I miss the guy who talked about how smart crows are. He built a vending machine for them and everything. Probably one of my favorite TED talks, from back when they weren't so meh.
Organize your time or smith
Can't be organised? Ready your hammer and anvil, apprentice, for we shall forge steel until you are whole once more
What is "smth"?
It's "something" but abbreviated like the youngsters are wont to do.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Well I'm sure it's something? But what is it? Like what exactly?
I've asked three people so far and all they say to me is that it means "something". But what does it actually mean? George is getting upset.
Damn it, Georgie. You wooshed me.
Who's on first??
I’ve seen something written as smth for so long the shorthand can drive legally, I wouldn’t call it a youngster thing anymore lol
"shaking my tiny head"
I feel very called out.
But it's nice that some of them tell you how to organize your time and that it's not very hard.
The decline of TED as an organization is a real bummer. looking at the most popular videos on their Youtube channel you can tell something changed about 7 years ago.
I feel like TEDx was the beginning of the downfall. Those have always been kind of new-age fluff and pop psychology, but the branding on them is so similar it's easy to mistake one for the other. Dilute your brand and it gets harder to recruit real cutting edge innovators and communicators, and the next thing you know, "Thank you for coming to my TED talk" is a meme.
I was going to blame TEDx too, but wasn't sure how long that's been around. "diluting the brand" is exactly what happened one way or another.
About the same time that Silicon Valley's bullshit caught up with itself. It went from fake it until you make it to fake it until you're caught. VC funding stopped being a means to an end and became the goal itself. Hard to produce with that mindset.
It went from being a cheap place for passionate nerds to innovate to an expensive place to try to make it big in tech.
There are a few places I expect tech breakthroughs to start coming from and none are in California. You just can’t afford to try in Silicon Valley in the same way you can’t afford to give your art a go in New York. Those doing it are betting so much and they have to put themselves under intense constraints. You’re probably better off buying a compound in rural Michigan or Minnesota and taking your time
TED happy hour podcast or whatever its called started around that time. NGL a lot of media peaked in 2015 and then fell off a cliff in 2016.
It's Trump's fault!
The organization of your time: 8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours free time.
Who is Smth and is his first name John?