TEDxManitoba - TJ Dawe: An Experiment in Collective Intelligence

TJ Dawe writes, performs, directs, and creates new theatre
pieces. Based in Vancouver, he's been touring theatre
and comedy festivals in Canada and the US for 13
years, with no signs of slowing down. He has six
published plays and a humour book. He perpetually
juggles a dozen or so new projects, and blogs a lot at
beamsandstruts.com-a magazine for hungry brains
and thirsty souls.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

[@JamesNNicol]

9 years old and this Tedx talk has aged like fine wine...dude...call me when you can; we'd love to have you and the fam over for dinner.

[@smarterthanawaffle]

Straight up. One of my favorite KZbin videos. I have also wondered about the flap thing.

[@vipersuphere]

This guys pretty damn smart, thumbs up

[@franzgatzweiler3815]

Great!

[@UGPepe]

right, that's exactly what I was saying :) please continue to enlighten me with your shining intellect and tell me exactly what my preconceived notions are and how did you manage to find them in the above post.

[@carnivalelectro]

brilliant as always TJ

[@sundance204]

He was referring to the unsustainable nature of our current practices. Many of these phenomena are well researched and have in-depth arguments that I doubt he had time to fit into this presentation. I believe his point was we likely need to change the way think to avoid this.

[@42piratas]

Lovely introduction, thank you for your talk!

[@rosybrandle]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@BMikeAD]

It's too bad that most people need to be lectured on this crap even though it's drilled into our heads as kids...

[@PaulKorir]

Refreshing.

[@PaulStrandlund]

He says "some people's creativity is not verbal". Hope that helps.

[@illpillprod]

but that's not what the talk is about (and it's not like those things aren't true). It's there in reference to where the world could be going

[@DanielPetersen]

Wait, what did he say at 06:28? "Some people are not ....." What?? Even the transcription did not understand him :D

[@ZaneMeki]

2:15 low-key Pewdiepie joke

[@areith]

your soul is dying, reader..

[@babaskitchenukrainiansoulf9329]

I couldn't help it. I read the comments and found one that just stuck a knife in my soul and twisted.

[@san3d]

CoIntel

[@UGPepe]

on 80% of ted talks the speaker reserves a few minutes to talk about how we need to "change the way we think" and the "unsustainable nature of our current practices" -- empty echoes of our confused culture - none can go one phrase beyond this mindless rhetoric - and you think it's because they couldn't fit the "well researched phenomena" into their presentation LOL

[@UGPepe]

the talk was good until he started blabbering about carbon footprint and food additives and the gap between the rich and the poor all the usual FUD - that's when you realize how much he actually knows about any of these subjects which is just popular opinion