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I too know a guy who did TEDx talk. After he did this talk, he suddenly became self-proclaimed intellectual authority on everything from Quantum Mechanics to po
by mayankkaizen 5y ago
I too know a guy who did TEDx talk. After he did this talk, he suddenly became self-proclaimed intellectual authority on everything from Quantum Mechanics to politics to religion to what not, on his Facebook page.
He couldn't write a 3 line Python program or solve a high school trigonometry problem or answer a basic history question.
- andi999 5y agoSo he is more of a 'big picture guy'?
- danrocks 5y agoMore of a C-level executive
- rgoulter 5y agoReminds me of the "company hierarchy" as discussed e.g.: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoPresidential.
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- crdrost 5y agoIt's just more touch and go. At a TEDx I attended, wind powered beach robots dazzled, a consultant gave a powerful spoken-word poem suggesting that consultants’ reports should be written as poetry to actually drive real change... [I actually have done bug reports as poems, which was great.] Both truly wonderful and stuck in my memory. But another sticks in my head for just being a weird thing in that forum: a woman upset after her uterus crapped out after three kids, when she wanted like 6+... Normally such a talk would be about dealing with grief around broken dreams and moving on with life, or about her adventures with adoption... but rather this was how she stuck with those dreams for a biological child even though hospitals were like “you have three healthy kids why are you trying to do IVF with a surrogate?” and eventually they got the IVF done abroad but it didn't implant but they have new schemes and plans. I'm not even opposed to her goal, just it didn't seem very TED-y.
- snowgrove 5y agoI think Sam Hyde’s TED talk, or even just his introduction, is the final word on that group’s lack of speaker vetting: https://youtu.be/9cflCyyEA2I https://youtu.be/9cflCyyEA2I
- mayankkaizen 5y agoHoli shit! You weren't kidding. Couldn't watch it beyond 5 minutes. But comments there was fun to read.
- Inu 5y agoThat was really funny.
- AcerbicZero 5y agoHaha, that was great.
- gigaflop 5y agoOh no, this guy? I just saw the iDubbz video about him over the weekend...