I am surprised at the cost and the graduate-job-interview style questions just to attend a satellite event like TEDx Sydney. I applied and was rejected. I am n

I am surprised at the cost and the graduate-job-interview style questions just to attend a satellite event like TEDx Sydney. I applied and was rejected. I am not interesting enough for them I guess, maybe I will apply again once I have been to the moon. So freshly discontented, I am more inclined to agree Ted is a religion, cult etc. :=) I do find the talks unsatisfying. The first 3-4 I watched were great (but I can't even remember what they are about) then they are same-ish after that. (My reason to attend was meeting people rather than the talks.) There is a lot of style over substance in TED talks. I rather have an OK public speaker speaking about something very interesting to me than vice versa.