A designer with Vanity Fair, Walter C Baumann has created a humorous flowchart detailing the nine steps to getting your very own TED talk and accompanying standing ovation.
This flowchart satirizes what TED talks seem to be: the use of common but vague terms like “the cloud” and “big data”, name-dropping of famous personalities, such as Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawking, and lastly, a humble-brag of where you went to school.
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[via Vanity Fair]
This flowchart satirizes what TED talks seem to be: the use of common but vague terms like “the cloud” and “big data”, name-dropping of famous personalities, such as Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawking, and lastly, a humble-brag of where you went to school.

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[via Vanity Fair]