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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.
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We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
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She theatrically waved her hands to deflect. Her colleagues conspired to shut India down...
"BUT WHO CREATED THE PROBLEM?"
With that one line opening NDA minister Piyush Goyal gives a master class to censorious, patronizing Europeans on climate double standards and their sneaky way of blaming "those developing countries" for the climate mess they themselves created.
IT'S GREAT TO SEE INDIA IS NO JUST A PARTICIPANT AT THE GLOBAL HIGH TABLE BUT IS CONFIDENTLY HOLDING ITS OWN.
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Remember Dangerous Dave from when we were kids?
Remember when we got stuck around level 7, and for every attempt to figure it out, we had to run through levels 1–6, just to die on level 7 again, without ever figuring it out?
Well, we remade it, and now you can choose the level!
We also made the game run smoother and added a modern-resolution option that preserves the original look and feel, just with sharper graphics!
Come check it out at doshd.com
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Gary Oldman giggling at farts dubbed into his movies, then laughing 'til the tears roll down his cheeks, may well be the happiest minute of your day!
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Watching Elon Musk this week has been a fascinating character study in the saviour complex of Western tech billionaires.
They arrive in your country selling you the future. Welcome them, and you’re a country that wants progress. Make them wait, and suddenly your people are victims who need rescuing from their own institutions by the chosen one.
It’s a pattern. When Thai rescuers didn’t use the mini-submarine Musk sent for the trapped boys, and diver Vernon Unsworth called the idea impractical, Musk attacked him as the “pedo guy.”
When Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered X to comply with its rulings, Musk called the judge a “dictator.”
The script rarely changes. Only the country does.
The colonial mindset isn’t always about wanting to rule a country. Sometimes it’s the assumption that you arrive as its saviour, and if the country doesn’t immediately recognise you as one, something must be wrong with the country.
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Looking forward to a fun chat with the clawfather tomorrow in SF!
We are delighted to announce the fireside that kicks off our afternoon at FARR: @bilawalsidhu in conversation with @steipete.
Ahead of TED2026, Peter told Bilawal he was thinking about canceling his talk. He was working on OpenClaw and OpenAI simultaneously and had zero bandwidth.
He didn't cancel. He prepped the entire talk in seven days, took meetings between sessions in Vancouver, walked into the green room with a lobster in his pocket, and delivered one of the “most talked-about” talks of TED2026, without a teleprompter.
Bilawal was the TED curator who worked with him on that talk. On October 5, the two sit down together again, this time on the FARR stage.
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
Bilawal Sidhu, Co-founder & CEO of halfpixel ai, Technology Curator & Host at TED, ex-Google, inaugural host of The TED AI Show
FARR is the force behind consequential people and ideas.
October 5 · San Francisco
Request an invite
🔗luma.com/FARRsummit
#FARRSummit #FrontierAI #Autonomy #Robotics #AIResearch #SFTechWeek
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If you want to understand the techno-religious fervor in AI, go read this cult classic and suddenly it'll all make sense. The dawn of the internet had very similar reactions.
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I was born before Sputnik. I watched Armstrong step out onto the Moon. I cheered for the Hubble, and the Mars rovers. I wept for the Challenger, and Columbia. I feared that our foray into space was on the wane.
I am 73 and, today, I am more hopeful than I have ever been.
