Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
Lux Narayan: Cosa ho imparato leggendo 2000 necrologi
Lux Narayan is a perpetual learner of various things -- from origami and molecular gastronomy to stand-up and improv comedy. Full bio
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around the Stanford campus,
attorno al campus, a Standford,
jogging there as well.
che a loro volta erano lì a correre.
from side to side like that?
da un lato all'altro a quel modo?
he set out to understand why.
si mise in testa di scoprirlo.
about many things:
di tante cose:
I hadn't heard of Joseph Keller.
niente di Joseph Keller.
of editorial dedicated to him,
un editoriale di mezza pagina,
for a newspaper of their stature.
enorme per un giornale di quel calibro.
I'm rather morbid
pensa che io sia un po' morboso
and a "Let's see who died today."
strapazzate e "Vediamo chi è morto oggi."
is usually bad news,
di solito riporta cattive notizie,
cues accomplishment
che segnalano conseguimenti
in the obituaries.
nei necrologi.
on future insights
sulle previsioni
from past data --
dai dati passati --
lo specchietto retrovisore.
to obituaries from the New York Times?
dei necrologi del New York Times?
your obituary featured --
potrebbe apparire il tuo necrologio...
between 2015 and 2016.
tra il 2015 e il 2016.
rather, lives -- teach us?
- o piuttosto, vite?
abbiamo osservato le parole.
worded descriptor
meravigliosamente espressa,
capture an achievement or a lifetime.
i traguardi di una vita.
people who died in the last two years.
di persone morte negli ultimi due anni.
del linguaggio naturale,
natural language processing,
che elimina le parole superflue,
facili da mimare giocando alle sciarade --
you can mime easily in "Charades," --
significant words.
per queste,
and of course, art, are huge.
ovvio, arte, sono in netta maggioranza.
why in so many societies
in così tante società,
engineering or medicine or business or law
ingegneria o medicina o economia o legge
they achieved things.
dei traguardi.
you've got to wait 37 years ...
that you're remembered for --
risultato importante
morirete a 81 anni --
die at the age of 81 --
your stride in your 20s.
prima dei 30.
only commendable act in their mid-40s.
e talvolta solo atto encomiabile verso i 45.
more than just a descriptor.
elemento di descrizione.
first paragraph of all 2,000 obituaries,
il paragrafo iniziale dei 2000 necrologi,
for two groups of people:
due gruppi di persone:
and people that are not famous.
che non sono famose.
Ali, Zaha Hadid --
Ali, Zaha Hadid -
are people like Jocelyn Cooper,
persone come Jocelyn Cooper,
of most of their names.
la maggior parte di questi nomi.
but they're not famous.
ma non sono famosi.
these two groups separately --
i due gruppi separatamente,
should thank your parents --
dovrebbero ringraziare i genitori...
your obituary when you're gone.
i vostri necrologi quando ve ne andrete.
from lives well-led,
in queste vite ben spese,
dalla stampa potevano insegnarci.
in print could teach us.
to the kaleidoscope that is life,
affascinante del caleidoscopio della vita,
majority of obituaries
maggioranza di necrologi
cose straordinarie.
in the fabric of life.
nel tessuto della vita.
alla vita di tutti i giorni:
back to your daily lives:
per aiutare la società?
trying to be famous in death,
cercando di essere famose da morte,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lux Narayan - EntrepreneurLux Narayan is a perpetual learner of various things -- from origami and molecular gastronomy to stand-up and improv comedy.
Why you should listen
Lakshmanan aka Lux Narayan mans the helm of Unmetric, a social media intelligence company that helps digital marketers, social media analysts, and content creators harness social signals to track and analyze competitive content and campaigns, and to create better content and campaigns of their own.
Prior to founding Unmetric, Narayan was a co-founder at Vembu Technologies, an online data backup company. He also helped found and volunteered at ShareMyCake, a non-profit started by his wife that focuses on encouraging children to use their birthdays to channel monetary support towards a cause of their choosing.
As Unmetric's CEO, he leads a team of 70 people distributed across the company's operations in Chennai and New York City.
Outside of work, he is a perpetual learner of various things -- from origami and molecular gastronomy to stand-up and improv comedy. He enjoys reading obituaries and other non-fiction and watching documentaries with bad ratings. Narayan makes time every year for trekking in the Himalayas or scuba diving in tropical waters, and once he learns to fly, he hopes to spend more time off land than on it.
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