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The decline of TED as an organization is a real bummer. looking at the most popular videos on their Youtube channel you can tell something changed about 7 years ago.
I feel like TEDx was the beginning of the downfall. Those have always been kind of new-age fluff and pop psychology, but the branding on them is so similar it's easy to mistake one for the other. Dilute your brand and it gets harder to recruit real cutting edge innovators and communicators, and the next thing you know, "Thank you for coming to my TED talk" is a meme.
I was going to blame TEDx too, but wasn't sure how long that's been around. "diluting the brand" is exactly what happened one way or another.
About the same time that Silicon Valley's bullshit caught up with itself. It went from fake it until you make it to fake it until you're caught. VC funding stopped being a means to an end and became the goal itself. Hard to produce with that mindset.
It went from being a cheap place for passionate nerds to innovate to an expensive place to try to make it big in tech.
There are a few places I expect tech breakthroughs to start coming from and none are in California. You just can’t afford to try in Silicon Valley in the same way you can’t afford to give your art a go in New York. Those doing it are betting so much and they have to put themselves under intense constraints. You’re probably better off buying a compound in rural Michigan or Minnesota and taking your time
TED happy hour podcast or whatever its called started around that time. NGL a lot of media peaked in 2015 and then fell off a cliff in 2016.
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