What would you do if you found someone with a crazy great idea?
June 18, 2010 7:13 AM Subscribe
How to become a leader, gain followers, and influence the crowd. A single link to a 3-minute Ted video - it's a brilliant insight from the founder of CD Baby, Derek Sivers.
This post was deleted for the following reason: we sort of covered this video last year -- mathowie
Next year at TED, I'll be showing a video that highlights how teamwork can help people overcome even the most difficult of tasks. See...there're these two girls, and they have this one cup...
posted by ColdChef at 7:40 AM on June 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by ColdChef at 7:40 AM on June 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
I think whoever had the cameraphone is the real unsung hero in this parable.
posted by kipmanley at 7:47 AM on June 18, 2010
posted by kipmanley at 7:47 AM on June 18, 2010
We need to set something up to auto-post TED Talks to the front page.
posted by blue_beetle at 7:49 AM on June 18, 2010
posted by blue_beetle at 7:49 AM on June 18, 2010
Is there a transcript floating around somewhere?
posted by codacorolla at 7:59 AM on June 18, 2010
posted by codacorolla at 7:59 AM on June 18, 2010
Previously. (yt link therein is borked, here's another).
I've come to conclusion that TED bothers me, but I'm having trouble figuring out why. It's not pompous, though it can be. It's not uninteresting, but it's usually not as fascinating as it claims to be. This video is the perfect example of what I associate with these talks: the kind of conversation business majors have if they ever try pot, but in a grandiose, self-celebratory setting. It's great that someone is waxing philosophical about a youtube video, but to see someone do it in a suit in front of a bunch of of wealthy people is somehow disturbing. How have these Titans of Imagineering reached a critical mass? Is it what happens when reasonably smart people like Silvers have enough money to sit around and 'think big'?
I don't mean to snark. There are certainly some very good TED talks, but they often seem like the half-baked, high-gloss ruminations of a particular social amalgam: pseudo-intellectual meets guy-playing-guitar-at-party meets Getting Things Done.
posted by farishta at 8:00 AM on June 18, 2010 [4 favorites]
I've come to conclusion that TED bothers me, but I'm having trouble figuring out why. It's not pompous, though it can be. It's not uninteresting, but it's usually not as fascinating as it claims to be. This video is the perfect example of what I associate with these talks: the kind of conversation business majors have if they ever try pot, but in a grandiose, self-celebratory setting. It's great that someone is waxing philosophical about a youtube video, but to see someone do it in a suit in front of a bunch of of wealthy people is somehow disturbing. How have these Titans of Imagineering reached a critical mass? Is it what happens when reasonably smart people like Silvers have enough money to sit around and 'think big'?
I don't mean to snark. There are certainly some very good TED talks, but they often seem like the half-baked, high-gloss ruminations of a particular social amalgam: pseudo-intellectual meets guy-playing-guitar-at-party meets Getting Things Done.
posted by farishta at 8:00 AM on June 18, 2010 [4 favorites]
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