TheGwen

Found a deep article to help explain TED. yeah i could just look at the TED website but it is too intense to navigate, i get side tracked by all the videos. And never seem to decide which to watch, the paradox of choice…

first, i like to say that i never thought TED is this old — started in 1984, so it is pretty much as old as me. Second, a conference, bet that cost money to get into, and have to say i get too ingrain to the “listenings” of conferences that my hearing sense shuts down after 4 hours. Forgive my deafness, just blame it on the education system to base their teaching just alone on listening and responding, never using visuals to engage our sense of sight.

but what i like is that now they have been posting their videos since 2007. HA, that is pretty much when i found them, either i am very sharp witted –or– just stupid lucky –or– someone is actually doing their job with the power of internet; I don’t know which?

The article mentions that scientists are starting to sound like artists… this is the point  to clarify we are shedding our 21st mentalities and removing boundaries of what makes a person a particular role – scientist, artist, writer, accountant, musician, filmmaker, homemaker, kid, programmer, etc, etc – if i really want to give a metaphor – the medieval renaissance period – Leonardo was no #1 role, he was multiple.

And this bothered me about being an industrial designer coming from RISD, all the starting jobs for grads are about having one good skill, which for most firms computer rendering. How stupid do these places take us for to just know one skill? Diversity is the secret towards a successful career. I do have to admit to get your foot in the door is very difficult if you are diverse because most companies will not know what to do with you if you came on broad, they might fear you. My stragety at first is to hide my A’s up my sleeve. Once I am in the job, i start saying, “Oh, i can do that… Oh, that will not take me long… Oh if you try it this way…Oh i do this all the time…Oh try this trick…Oh you want to know a faster way…”