CalgaryRecall

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.

letting cities run amok over citizens isnt letting democracy takes its course, city governance is an extention of the Province's responsibility smith & williams not showing up for me, I wont be showing up for you either our city is already run by naheed council & admin minions

remember smith mciver & now williams refused to step in for calgary; we had to go through years of horrid stress with RCG/HGO & Repeal but Smith stepped in for Edmonton, yah we remember. helping jermoy massage his huge water fees+tax hike is a slap in the face, the last straw

this reads like a directive straight from carny: "help out jeromy with the tax% he's about to slamm on calgarians after all we owe him for all the forever canada schlepping he did" then jermoy wears the tie to quietly poke smith he has leverage over the provincial government

these 2 standing behind+supporting jeromy is going to cost them MANY more votes in Calgary than this gimmick will win dont they see the daily whipping ratio he gets from real calgarians (not bots)? jeromy finally wearing the Alberta tartan was meant to insult @ABDanielleSmith

Some investigating to do. @DanWilliamsAB If someone from admin approved this contract and then personally benefited from the outcome, like part of the reorg of roles, then that's gotta be set straight. From water to housing - calgary has a problem with third party interests.

guess who else lives in Poland by the millions? that's right, it's Ukrainians slav genocide will spread across europe coming for the eastern slavs the western slavs and the south slavs

Poles don't want to get Ukrained!

While Ursula von der Leyen is in Canada deciding our future without discussing it with Canadians... there's a coup going on in Poland, and it's being conducted by one of Ursula's globalist puppets, Donald Tusk. If ever there was a time to push back, this is it 🇨🇦

Having listened to Farkas this week it sounds like administration fully has control of this council, he is the savior and the subjects just need to get in line. What a disaster this is.

15 minute city, more bike lanes including McLeod, water rationing, another raise for Gondek and council

2 double-up of managers and directors in WATER DEPT? fire.them.all

Water Dept Confessions: Paid to screw the pooch ART TEAM?? doing what?