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The Nikon Don retweeted
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Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry.
He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say.
Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing at all.
His name is Will Stephen. He is a comedian from Late Night with Seth Meyers who was invited to give a real TED talk and used it to prove the format is a costume anyone can wear.
Every TED speaker opens with a question, tells a personal story, cites a scientist, and shows a chart. Stephen did all four in six minutes with zero content.
His entire formula fits on a napkin.
Gesture with both hands. Ask the audience a question anyone can answer. Tell a mildly embarrassing story so they say aww. Point to a stranger on a slide and call them important. Flash a chart of random numbers. Wear glasses with no lenses. The audience will think you are brilliant.
That last trick alone has probably cost the public speaking coaching industry a hundred million dollars in sessions clients should have skipped.
"If you watched me on YouTube with the sound off, you would think I was a genius."
That is Will Stephen on the TED stage, three minutes into the talk he was paid to give. He wasn't lying.
Executives pay $15,000 for a keynote coach and still open with a joke the room never laughs at. Founders rehearse their pitch for weeks and still sound like Stephen at minute four, saying "wagga wah, gabba gabba" with authority.
The talk is free on YouTube. The method is written across every TED speaker's playbook for ten years.
Stephen still writes for Seth Meyers. Almost none of the ten million viewers have stopped nodding at empty slides since.
The formula is free. The willingness to actually say something before your next keynote, pitch, or townhall is the entire edge.
The Nikon Don retweeted
Marvel held a drone show in Korea for ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ that included a transition from Iron Man to Doctor Doom.
The Nikon Don retweeted
Listen!!!! I've been an Auntee for a long time🤣The accuracy in this needs to be studied and a college paper in the psychology of this would be worthy. @randy_pyron
The Nikon Don retweeted
I’m high as dog shit and this the funniest shit I seen all day omm im in tearssssss
"This is the worst superstar in the history of sports."
@stephenasmith reacts to Kawhi Leonard's knee swelling injury 😧
The Nikon Don retweeted
This is f*cking insane. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang:
"Nobody writes prompts anymore. The new job is building loops and graphs
The engineers who stopped prompting are already years ahead, and the rest will end up working for them"
In this 50-minute talk, Jensen explains why prompting is over and what the best engineers are building instead
Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs → AI Workforce
Using AI doesn't mean writing better prompts into a chatbot
It means loops that do the work, and graphs that run the loops without you
95% of people are still polishing prompts, the 5% who build loops and graphs will run everything
Worth more than any $2,000 AI course
Bookmark and watch it today
Then save the full harness engineering guide below before everyone catches up ↓
The Nikon Don retweeted
어제 홍콩에서 난리난 이노래.
위켄드가 홍콩 콘서트에서 기습 공개한 미발표곡 "Hong Kong"인데, 뒤편 전광판에 90년대 홍콩 야경 깔아두고 1분대부터 왕페이의 1993년 명곡 '계후풍(季候風)' 보컬 샘플을 그대로 얹어버림.
위켄드 특유의 몽환적인 비트에 왕페이 음색이 겹쳐지면서 도시 밤거리 분위기 제대로 살려냈고 현장 반응도 완전히 뒤집어짐. 취향 저격 제대로 당함.
인스타 홍콩피드 다 이노래로 도배됨
앞으로 홍콩 대표노래될듯
youtube.com/watch?v=YBhL2a7C…
The Nikon Don retweeted
you need more people.. that’s what you told me LMAOOOOO
Mase & Jay still hate each other and 90’s real rap beef never really dies.. dudes just get older and it’s just fake daps and hugs and fake song features but there’s real pettiness behind these giggles 😂😂😂
The Nikon Don retweeted
Official trailer for the comedy series, ‘FreeLance.’
Starring Spence Moore II, Lou Young, Lou Ratchett, Bernard “BNard” Clark, Christianee Porter, Kevin Fredericks (KevOnStage), and René Vaca.
• Created and directed by Julien and Justen Turner.
The Nikon Don retweeted
Sleeper account.
This guy interviewed 100+ billionaires to learn exactly how they built their businesses.
Then spent 13 years building one of the most famous business media brands in the world.
Now he’s finally sharing everything he learned behind the scenes.
Worth following early.
I’m Nathan Chan, the founder of Foundr.
I’ve interviewed hundreds of founders, including:
- Alex Hormozi
- Tony Robbins
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Daymond John
- Tim Ferriss
- Richard Branson
- Arianna Huffington
- Emma Grede
- Sophia Amoruso
- Codie Sanchez
And so many more.
Here’s a little about me and what I've done so far:
> Grew up in the Melbourne suburbs. Mum was a nurse, Dad was a teacher, and we had no connections
> Worked an IT support job I hated, literally crawling under people's desks and changing their passwords
> Started a little digital magazine in 2013 as a side hustle... some nights I worked on it until 5am, then went straight to my day job
> Sued by one of the biggest business magazines in the states, which turned out to be a massive blessing in disguise
> Around the same time, I kept calling Richard Branson's head of PR until she picked up. He agreed to the cover, and I gave the Richard Branson edition away for free
> Went full time in 2014 and never raised money (I wanted to control my own destiny)
> Grew our Instagram from 0 to 10,000 followers in two weeks. I wrote a blog post on it that went semi-viral, people started asking for a course, and that course became our education business
> Built and exited Healthish, a DTC brand that was essentially a one-product company selling a time-marked water bottle
> Spent 10s of millions profitably on ads using my own money (but also lost millions too)
> Interviewed hundreds founders, including countless billionaires and some of the greatest entrepreneurs across multiple generations
> Have built one of the largest online education platforms in the ecom space and see everything that works and also everything that fails
> Been building Foundr for the past 13 years, and I'm still building it
And here’s what I'll be posting about:
> What these founder interviews taught me about scaling profitable businesses
> Why no agency is ever going to care about your brand as much as you do, and what that means for your ads
> Why one problem, one feature beats a full catalog (what Healthish taught me)
> Even more lessons from the founders on my podcast, including the stuff that never makes the highlight reel
My goal going into 2027 is to share all the lessons I've learned on my journey, in the hope of helping you guys on yours.
If that's the kind of thing you want to follow, stick around.
The Nikon Don retweeted
Deadass never seen an LA Leakers freestyle like this before their chemistry is ridiculous
The Nikon Don retweeted
If you live in Miami and own a Miami Heat jersey, please show up to practice tomorrow.
