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started becoming as invested as I was in his recovery. It was like they were doing it with me, sort of, which was the coolest thing that I've ever done.

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with typewriters scissors and Polaroid cameras it was sort of like Google in paperback form 35 years before Google

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live here on stage, sort of. So we are over here

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science tells us that what passes for multitasking is nothing of the sort it is sequential

Slow Thinking

I asked him if he worked in the airport and he said, "Yeah, sort of." He said he

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and we were sitting there, blowing it. That was when I realized that this sort of benign neglect was a real problem, and it had real consequences,

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I should point out, by the way, this whole video was sort of a modern-day homage to the greatest film of a generation.

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to get this explosive output, sort of like you'd expect to see if you combine this bucket of boiling water

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

to be at a million trips per week. And just to sort of help people wrap their minds around what that means, or how to think about it,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

is a human drives around 700,000 miles in a lifetime -- a human who lives sort of the full lifetime -- and so this is like six lifetimes of human driving per week.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

or even moderate discomfort. And so we have to introduce sort of that reality in order for the technology to be viewed

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

because what we found back in 2012, when we had sort of a supercruise capability, the Waymo driver was at that ability,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

to take some of the congestion out of the city, have sort of the kiss-and-ride from the suburbs in, have people take Waymo rides.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

have people take Waymo rides. We've gotten really favorable sort of reviews in the reports that have been done there.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

parks could come back community life could sort of come back to the center of a city. So that's a vision.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

to learn the skills that are needed. And then I think while there's a lot of focus on sort of the jobs, there are also small businesses in these places where we’re launching

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

isn't just about curiosity, it's also about, sort of, finding out where the limits are, pushing the boundaries of what's OK.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

But there's another layer to why we define stuff as gross. As humans, we've sort of extended the concept of disgust to morality. So, the psychologist Paul Rozin would say

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

we just kind of pretend like it's not there. But truthfully, we all spend sort of a big part of our lives just trying not to be gross.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

When you really think about it, we're sort of just like bags of fluids and some weird tissues surrounded by a thin layer of skin.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

(Laughter) And the comment section for that video became sort of like a self-help section, where people could talk about their tonsil stone experiences

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and receive sperm from the one behind, which is sort of like an awesome time-saver, when you think about it.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

they can reject us, they can actively harm us. And so this sort of dilemma that we face, the sort of entity that we need the most

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And so this sort of dilemma that we face, the sort of entity that we need the most is also the entity that can harm us the most.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

What would you tell other people who are in your situation?" And so as I'm sort of stumbling back into the hallway, I'm thinking about a few things that I have learned

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

something small like saying hello can have colossal consequences for our life. But when we can lean into the sort of positive side of the paradox of people, when we can initiate and assume people like us, right,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

and for those tips which we will dive into in this conversation. And, you know, I think just to sort of start, your line of work is just so interesting.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

WPR: You touched on this a little bit in the talk, and in the book, you separate, sort of, the way you think about friendship to two categories.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

the way you think about friendship to two categories. You talk about, you know, sort of a backward look at how we've traditionally experienced friendship,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

better platonic relationships. And so if we could just talk a little bit about sort of that first section, just diving into how we as a culture tend to think about friendship

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

MF: Yeah, so I'm reading all the research on friendship, and what sort of materializes before my eyes is that our personalities are fundamentally a reflection

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

seem like are just really challenging for us to develop. But I guess, can you talk about sort of, why this breakdown happens and really when we start to see that it becomes more difficult

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

we're letting our guard down, we end up sort of just developing these friendships. But when you think about adults going into the working worlds,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

which is basically that our chums or our friends earlier in life, they provide us with the sort of relationship template that we take on into our future.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

rather than antithetical to the personality that we want to have. And we are able to sort of relinquish all of the energies that we spend trying to push this thing away.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

to help us integrate that and to help us connect to all sides of ourselves so that we sort of begin to become who we fully are. WPR: It's just so interesting how much vulnerability and shame play into this.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

however your spouse feels is kind of how you feel. Their, sort of, energy affects you a lot more when they're the only person that you're looking to for support.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

We have lots of questions that are coming in about, sort of, the steps to actually making friends. And I think before we get into some of those specific questions,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And I think before we get into some of those specific questions, I know you, in the talk, sort of shared -- you started with two tips,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

and then overcoming what you call covert avoidance or that urge to sort of mentally check out when you're meeting someone new. What are some of the other ways that you recommend people try to use

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

WPR: So TED member Celia actually is curious about virtual friendships and sort of how all of this plays into it, especially to some of the points you were making earlier

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

it might mean that they have their own issues to work out. WPR: I think, in sort of thinking about how to make friendships work well or to be really good at this process of doing this, you know,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

whether that's a physical distance has been created or some sort of emotional distance because your life has changed in some way?

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

I was starting to reframe the narrative that I had any sort of lack of credibility or intelligence. There will always be people who make you feel

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

but couldn't manage to fit me in to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said, "I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?"

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

And I also know that there's a lot of workplaces that are trapped in this sort of, like, industrial, super patriarchal, rabidly individualistic mindset,

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It was built for the factory age to standardize, sort and prepare young people for predictable jobs.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction. And people would say, "Aren't you afraid you're never going to have any success?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But, when it comes to writing, the thing that I've been sort of thinking about lately, and wondering about lately, is why?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And I definitely know that, in my case -- in my situation -- it would be very dangerous for me to start sort of leaking down that dark path of assumption,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

the freakish success of my last book, right? I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now -- it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that the way that I have to work now, in order to continue writing, is that I have to create some sort of protective psychological construct, right? I have to sort of find some way to have a safe distance

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

is that I have to create some sort of protective psychological construct, right? I have to sort of find some way to have a safe distance between me, as I am writing, and my very natural anxiety

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time, and I've been trying to find other societies

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

about how to help creative people sort of manage the inherent emotional risks of creativity. And that search has led me to ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

The Romans had the same idea, but they called that sort of disembodied creative spirit a genius. Which is great, because the Romans did not actually think

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that a genius was a particularly clever individual. They believed that a genius was this, sort of magical divine entity, who was believed to literally live in the walls of an artist's studio,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and who would come out and sort of invisibly assist the artist with their work and would shape the outcome of that work.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

trying to control and manage and dominate these sort of uncontrollable creative impulses that were totally internalized.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

It saved me when I was in the middle of writing "Eat, Pray, Love," and I fell into one of those sort of pits of despair that we all fall into when we're working on something and it's not coming

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

to my freakish success. And what I have to sort of keep telling myself when I get really psyched out about that is don't be afraid.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then "Olé!"

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

You saved my life." Now, for a book about how to clean, that's sort of odd, yeah? (Laughter)

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

and my enchilada pan to a nice beat. Sort of a laugh to keep from cry situation, surely. And I got a comment.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

what I really like is this feeling of physical exhaustion, sort of this satisfaction you can feel in every single muscle. And in the evening, when it's time to go to bed,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

And today, I hope to convince you that we should all appreciate daylight as sort of a natural soporific. And hopefully, by the end of the talk,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

And the benign violation theory of humor, which is sort of a golden ratio theory of humor, if you will. See, I got in that term

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

could be a stepping stone to creating it sort of made sense. This paper I was involved in

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

A description of the cartoon, explanation of the humor. OK, if you've used ChatGPT, you sort of get the idea now. Put a number of examples like this.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

They don't really seem like -- it's sort of an uncanny valley of cartoons. They're not quite there.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

but they have to pick the one or two to focus on. And oftentimes, those dozens of opportunities just sort of get lost. And so we're trying to uncover them, try to find, you know,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

So if this is true and we can end up in this sort of standoff scenario and the equivalent of mutually-assured destruction,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

before we move on to the dreams, is, to sort of moderate these AI systems at scale, right, there's this weird tension in AI safety

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

or delivered by the equivalent of nurse practitioners and very, very sort of stressed local village doctors. Why do they not have the doctor assistant that helps them in their language,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

because I talk to them every day, to sort out the lies from the truths. Take a breath before you share information,

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

In the general conversation out there, a lot of the sort of fear that people spoke of is the arrival of AGI, artificial general intelligence.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

Generative AI is still pretty new, but we're already seeing exactly the sort of effects you'd expect in a world in which generative AI competes with its training data.

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I think what happened is it kind of shattered this, sort of, mom-induced megalomania I had, and it made me take an actual look at my life.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

I have a few others I answer weekly, like contribution to society. That's sort of a weekly thing for me. My mom thinks it's daily, it's not.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

And there's an old man standing next to me. So he's wearing, like, a long overcoat and sort of an old-man hat, and he looked like somebody from a movie.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

When it comes to people, it's sort of a shortcut for learning about them. We see male, female, young, old,

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

and bring order to the chaos that we are currently experiencing. So many of us are experiencing a sort of existential depression. This idea that, you know, we consume the news and we're like,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

I'm thinking, uh oh, what does my future look like? SA: I mean, I think there are sort of two views you can take. You can say, oh, man, it's doing everything I do.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

and I was, to say the least, underprepared for this sort of attention. It's one thing to work up the confidence to write honestly

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I also believe that we probably do need to figure out some sort of new model around the economics of creative output. I think people have been building on the creativity of others

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And my jaw dropped, Sam, it was shocking. It knew who I was and all these sort of interests that hopefully mostly were pretty much appropriate and shareable.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

it'll be listening to you throughout the day and sort of observing what you're doing, and it'll get to know you

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

We can do more things with less, we sort of push back the frontier of what's possible. We're starting to hear a lot from scientists

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

models that are capable of self-improvement in a way that leads to some sort of loss of control. So I think there are big risks there.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And it also kind of can't, even if we lower the bar, it can't just sort of do any knowledge work you could do in front of a computer.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

you could do in front of a computer. I actually, even without the sort of ability to get better at something it doesn't know yet,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And I think, the fear is totally rational. Sort of, the anxiety is totally rational. We all have a lot of it, too.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

maybe the companies themselves put together the right framework or the right sort of model for this, but we need some way that very advanced models have external safety testing.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

with a high degree of safety in the hands of a lot of people, and giving them tools to sort of do whatever amazing things they're going to do,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

Our tactics will shift more in the future, but adherence to this sort of mission and what we're trying to do, I think very strong.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

it would feel very disorienting. But anything does become sort of the new normal, so it doesn't feel any different.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

So if you ask the model to depict a bunch of violence or something like that or to sort of reinforce some stereotype, there's a question of whether or not it should do that.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

Trump coming in and he's very you know sort of unpredictable and he's going to break a lot of China including some

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like Mike Pompeo um who were you know sort of adults from the Republican establishment he has a group of people

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