{"id":34441,"date":"2016-03-26T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34441"},"modified":"2016-03-23T19:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T23:18:49","slug":"how-to-talk-about-nothing-at-a-ted-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/26\/how-to-talk-about-nothing-at-a-ted-event\/","title":{"rendered":"How to talk about nothing at a TED event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/how-to-sound-smart-in-a-ted-talk-a-funny-primer-by-saturday-night-lives-will-stephen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ayun Halliday<\/a> posted a video of Will Stephen demonstrating how to do a TED talk on nothing:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8S0FDjFBj8o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is there any subject that can\u2019t be covered in a TED Talk?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not. You can make a TED Talk about anything, even nothing, as veteran improviser and rookie <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> writer, Will Stephen, demonstrated at a recent TEDx event in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>What you shouldn\u2019t do is deviate from TED\u2019s established presentation tropes. Stephen may be punking us with his How to Sound Smart in Your TEDx Talk, above, but aspirant TED speakers should take notes. One can\u2019t practice observational humor without being a keen observer. Stephen\u2019s insights are as good a playbook as any for that unmistakeable TED-style delivery<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayun Halliday posted a video of Will Stephen demonstrating how to do a TED talk on nothing: Is there any subject that can\u2019t be covered in a TED Talk? Apparently not. You can make a TED Talk about anything, even nothing, as veteran improviser and rookie Saturday Night Live writer, Will Stephen, demonstrated at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[463],"class_list":["post-34441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Xv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34442,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions\/34442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}