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Offline Tomas_Miles_again

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #60 on: October 19, 2014, 06:46:01 pm »
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Not all that groundbreaking, but they are a good watch.

Also the sooner you get to learning them, the better.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #61 on: October 19, 2014, 06:51:02 pm »
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I only checked this one, but Jesus, I hate this method of "teaching." Takes him ages to get to the point, and when you finally think he's going to actually say something useful about the subject, he says "but let me first talk about two myths." And usually you find out you wasted ten minutes to an hour only to discover the person had nothing of value to contribute anyway.

Sadly, this tends to be the format TEDtalks follow. I don't understand why it's so hard to have an "abstract" in the beginning, á la science papers.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #62 on: October 19, 2014, 06:59:10 pm »
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Quote from: Xant on October 19, 2014, 06:51:02 pm
I only checked this one, but Jesus, I hate this method of "teaching." Takes him ages to get to the point, and when you finally think he's going to actually say something useful about the subject, he says "but let me first talk about two myths." And usually you find out you wasted ten minutes to an hour only to discover the person had nothing of value to contribute anyway.

Sadly, this tends to be the format TEDtalks follow. I don't understand why it's so hard to have an "abstract" in the beginning, á la science papers.

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #63 on: October 19, 2014, 07:05:50 pm »
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A TED talk about TED talks not working... it's like the liar paradox.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #64 on: October 19, 2014, 09:34:25 pm »
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #65 on: October 19, 2014, 10:36:03 pm »
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A TED talk about TED talks not working...

One week ago I had a meeting about organizing meetings at work. I think we reached the middle management singularity.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #66 on: October 20, 2014, 12:21:05 am »
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Agile?
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #67 on: October 20, 2014, 12:25:41 am »
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Leshma, what are you talking about?
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #68 on: October 20, 2014, 12:37:25 am »
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #69 on: October 20, 2014, 12:47:24 am »
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Wow, I remember when TED talks used to actually be informative and fun to listen to. Now unfortunately they have been hijacked by leftists like many other things that were once good  :(
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #70 on: October 20, 2014, 01:50:03 am »
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It's well-founded economics. For a recent study take a look at Tomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #71 on: October 20, 2014, 04:12:16 am »
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Yeah, guess I shouldn't just have put all those videos up.

One is enough. I think one of them is more to the point than the first 'storytelling' crap.

Quote from: Kafein on October 19, 2014, 10:36:03 pm
One week ago I had a meeting about organizing meetings at work. I think we reached the middle management singularity.

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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #72 on: October 20, 2014, 07:11:04 pm »
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Quote from: Leshma on October 20, 2014, 12:21:05 am
Agile?

Quite so. And successfully I might add. Most of the meetings are independent of that though.
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #73 on: October 20, 2014, 07:45:11 pm »
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Quote from: Kafein on October 20, 2014, 07:11:04 pm
Quite so. And successfully I might add. Most of the meetings are independent of that though.

http://guide.agilealliance.org/ ?
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Re: English proficiency index
« Reply #74 on: October 20, 2014, 08:17:54 pm »
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Yeah, that kind of agile.
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