Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation, Communication
21 October 2013, late afternoon
ed. I attended a conference on small business today for work. Most of the speakers were amazing. One was not. My notes from their talk.
This last talk is pure nonsense. Mostly new-age this and that. I wonder if he will be able to talk like this for a whole 45 minutes without actually saying anything. I regret not leaving before he started. It seems rude to leave now.
People are slowly trickling out of the talk. He sometimes mocks them as they leave.
He has all the ticks of a great speaker: he’s funny and engaging; his tone is conversational; he repeats his points; he speaks with a smooth cadence; his voice rises and falls at just the right moments. He’s just not saying anything. It feels like he’s strung together a series of platitudes into a whole talk.
He’s talking about about how these sorts of talks are mostly bullshit, by delivering a talk that’s mostly bullshit. It’s all very meta.
Something something continuous improvement something something. That sounds like it might be worth listening to. He doesn’t say anything useful, though.
“A true entrepreneur sets out to discover the truth.†Seriously. Like Magellan, apparently. Magellan was hacked to death by Filipino villagers.