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Re:The Church of TED by seanmcdirmid on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:43PM (#9208756)
When you get more experienced at speaking, you can get back to dry wit and piercing insight. It is difficult, but I find TED to be very bland compared to the talks I'm used to watching.
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Re:The Church of TED by dwiel on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:52PM (#9208791)
And which talks are those?
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Re:The Church of TED by seanmcdirmid on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:59PM (#9208813)
I'm in the PL community, so talks by people like Gilad Bracha, Richard Gabriel, Guy Steele, Dave Thomas (the OTI founder), Christina Lopes, Simon Peyton Jones are really good. I saw a Bret Victor talk that wasn't really bad either, with lots of wit, though he seems to be a bit more subdued than I'm used to (which is fine, it is important to stay real to yourself as a speaker). I'm sure I'm missing many people in the list of good speakers.

Also, James Mickens in the systems community (and also a colleague at MSR) is really good. He tends to go off the wall a bit more, but that is just part of his rhythm.

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Re:The Church of TED by mvkel on Thursday March 19, 2015 @03:07PM (#9233923)
You think this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GPpYseUZck is more exciting than a TED talk?

I guess it's subjective...

The point of TED talks isn't that they're supposed to have a stand-up comedian's level of presentation skill. It's about captains of industry talking about their slice of the world.

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