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Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
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.
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
Reminder: this is how Vivek got rich. He bought a worthless drug, had HIS MOM run a bogus trial on the drug, then went on CNBC and lied about it.
The drug never worked. Investors lost all their money. But Vivek had already cashed out.
Excited to have joined forces with @Confluence42 @RobMajteles and the rest of the team at confluencecapital.com as a Strategic Advisor
Confluence invests in, and brings clarity to, the next wave of major transformation in public equities: the industrial energy transition.
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
Exciting News at Confluence Capital Impact Partners! 💡
@RobMajteles and I are honored to welcome Prof. Cary Krosinsky as a Strategic Advisor to the firm.
@ckrosinsky is a globally recognized leader in sustainable investing whose career spans elite academic institutions, international climate policy, and institutional asset owner advisory roles:
🔹 Prolific Author: Author/editor of 7+ foundational books—including Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance, Modern China, and Transition Momentum.
🔹 Pension & Endowment Ties: Former member of the NYS Common Retirement Fund Decarbonization Panel and catalyst behind Brown University Endowment's sustainable investment framework.
🔹 Institutional Scale: Convened and advised global asset owners and pension leaders representing over $15T in AUM.
Cary’s deep expertise and institutional network will be invaluable as Confluence Capital expands its reach across active industrial energy transition mandates.
Welcome aboard, Cary! 🌐
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
NEW:
An army of volunteers and activists across the US have been training for months to face down ICE at the polls on election day.
The message they have for the Trump administration?
"We're ready"
wired.com/story/massive-grou…
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well." —George Orwell, "1984”
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
Cuba has completely fallen to pieces. A bleak, but important, story about economic collapse.
By Robert Worth. With astonishing photos by Moises Saman.
theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
Summary of Trump speech today:
high prices are short term - 1%
El-Sayed is bad - 4%
Greenland is ours - 5%
nothing is his fault - 8%
Omar is bad - 12%
Dems want all trans - 15%
Ass - 55%
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
Just a reminder that this man is solely responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide, including children and babies. All because he's a racist from apartheid South Africa who hates poor people, Black people, and Brown people.
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
One of my big tinfoil hat opinions is the wealthy ruling class wants candidates w big secrets because they ONLY want politicians they have leverage over.
Never been in Congress & never will but I’ve been in enough back rooms at the national scale at this point to say, correct
On Lindsey Graham.
Stay with me on this.
The worst kept secret in Washington DC came out today because 3 brave men came out and told the truth and it doesn’t matter if it is after he’s dead.
Brave?
Yes brave.
Why are they brave?
They had to go on camera and tell intimate details of their personal lives.
To the world.
That is extremely difficult to do. Yes it’s brave. And Stressful. They walked into the public square opening themselves to the opinions of the entire world.
No matter your opinion on the issue, they took a courageous leap in coming forward.
If you are critical, would you go on camera and tell your secrets to the entire world?
I would bet a lot of money you wouldn’t.
Ok but there is more to this.
Because this is the world I saw up close in Washington.
I saw behind the curtain and saw ALL the wizards.
Everyone in the highest levels of power in Washington DC are keeping secrets that would destroy their entire lives.
And that’s exactly why they have power.
Not because they are so smart or qualified or the best choice for leadership.
I mean really, if you think our best and brightest are in charge then do some critical thinking and look at the pathetic state of our debt, our dollar, and how our government is run, and the outcome that affects your life.
Their secrets are the only reason these people rise to the top.
Because their secrets are not secrets.
We all knew Lindsey Graham was gay. Everyone did.
Their secrets are levers of control. Keeps them in line. Makes them a team player. And will make them fight the hardest on issues that don’t make sense in order to keep their secrets just that. Secrets.
So everyone is arguing about how this is old news, why now? Or arguing about being gay, and gay issues. Or arguing because that’s what everyone does on the internet, just argue with each other and with bots about issues they don’t have the real truth on, but throw out their strongest opinion anyways.
I’m here to tell you the granular issue you need to dial in on and block out the rest of the noise.
Three gay men just bravely pulled back the curtain and tried to teach you all the most important lesson America needs to learn.
It’s this.
America’s most powerful leaders keep secrets that comprise them in the most dangerous ways for the security, safety, and prosperity of our nation.
That’s the whole point.
I tried my hardest to fight the entire system on both sides of the aisle and couldn’t beat it because YOU ALL keep voting these people back into office and back into power.
By the way, I always cosponsored the Term Limit bill and no matter who is in charge, Pelosi, McCarthy, or Johnson, Dem or Rep, that bill never ever got even close to getting a vote on the House floor.
So the question for you, The American People, is are you able to learn the lesson and if so, what exactly are YOU going to do about it?
Ask yourself, what are you voting for? Donating to? Volunteering for?
And are you really satisfied with the outcome election cycle after election cycle?
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
Buried in $SPCX's 10-Q:
$561M of that record Q3 profit isn't rockets. It isn't Starlink.
Boring Company raised a new round in September, so SpaceX marked up its stake in Elon's tunnel company and booked a $561M unrealized gain.
No cash changed hands.
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
Sounds like the start of a movie villain's big reveal. 🥴 Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney's MUSK "plays like equal parts dystopian sci-fi and outright horror flick" (Rolling Stone) and is now playing in theaters. Get your tickets now before it's gone!
bit.ly/4ArO3ZA
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
BMW has offered about 40,000 German employees the chance to resign voluntarily with generous severance packages.
Interest was so strong that the company’s internal HR portal crashed under the traffic.
Germany is slowly slipping under.
Cary S. Krosinsky retweeted
boom, there it is.
or perhaps i should say, “bust, there it is”
all this insanity about demand and there are literally warehouses of idle GPUs.
Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them.
businessinsider.com/amazon-2…
