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Did he just tell off the Stanford audience, "No one here reads, except for Sam."? He reminded me of this anecdote: In an intro to Anthropology video on Stanfor
by da02 9y ago
Did he just tell off the Stanford audience, "No one here reads, except for Sam."?
He reminded me of this anecdote: In an intro to Anthropology video on Stanford's YouTube channel. The professor passed out a questionnaire that included, "Why are you taking this class?". Someone wrote, "Yes". I expected that kind of response in my biz classes @ CUNY, but not @ Stanford. Especially, in an Anthropology class.
- tim333 9y agoHe had a few digs at the audience including saying they were maybe not very interesting as they hadn't sent him good questions. There seems a bit of I/we are so great, everything else is crap. Part of his style I guess.
- alankay1 9y agoI said "either my talk is not interesting, or you (the audience) is not interesting, or both. Please try to disabuse me of the latter". Please try to be more diligent about what you are complaining about. It's clear that I didn't mean remotely what you imply. Why wouldn't you take the trouble to check your memory before writing the above?
- coldwaraaron 9y agoZing. I enjoyed the hell out of both videos and will be watching them again because there was so much to unpack there. I didn't send an email because it's intimidating to email someone who has affected my life in so many ways, but I will take this opportunity to thank you for your work and for sharing your ideas in these videos.
- alankay1 9y agoPlease do email -- I don't even bark much, and bite not at all.
- alankay1 9y agoP.S. The audience did get around to "disabuse me of the latter" -- I finally started getting a lot of emails, most of them very thoughtful and worth reading, and replying to.
- tim333 9y agoFair enough. My bad.
- aduffy 9y agoI was in the room when he made the comment, it's not entirely unfair. The libraries are mostly for computers and group meeting rooms. Many of the books I have checked out have had no stamps since the late 90s, and several I've been first to checkout.