Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
럭스 나라얀(Lux Narayan): 2000개의 부고에서 배운 점
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,
조깅을 종종 했었습니다.
jogging there as well.
모든 여성들에게 감명을 받았습니다.
from side to side like that?
좌우로 흔들리는걸까?
he set out to understand why.
이해하려고 다짐했습니다.
about many things:
궁금해 했습니다.
I hadn't heard of Joseph Keller.
조셉 켈러에 대해 들어본 적이 없었어요.
그에 대해 읽었습니다.
of editorial dedicated to him,
반 페이지 정도 의 사망기사를 냈는데
for a newspaper of their stature.
신문의 아주 좋은 위치였습니다.
I'm rather morbid
하루를 시작한다고 생각했죠.
and a "Let's see who died today."
"오늘 누가 죽었나 보자" 이렇게요.
is usually bad news,
안좋은 내용의 뉴스이고요.
내용을 넣죠.
cues accomplishment
보여주는 실례는
in the obituaries.
부고란에 위치해 있습니다.
on future insights
운영하는 건데요.
from past data --
이끌어낼 수 있는 예측입니다.
to obituaries from the New York Times?
이면을 바라보면 어떨까?
your obituary featured --
즐기진 못하더라도
between 2015 and 2016.
20개월이 넘는 기간동안
rather, lives -- teach us?
우리들에게 무엇을 가르쳐줬을까요?
worded descriptor
글이 남습니다.
capture an achievement or a lifetime.
담기 위해 노력한 글 말이죠.
people who died in the last two years.
지난 2년동안 죽은 사람들이요.
묘사들을 살펴보았습니다.
natural language processing,
작업을 했죠.
you can mime easily in "Charades," --
제스쳐로 할 수 있는 단어들이요.
significant words.
남겨둡니다.
작업한 것이 아니라
모두 이 프로그램에 돌렸어요.
and of course, art, are huge.
그리고 당연히 미술 이 많았지요.
why in so many societies
왜 많은 사회에서
engineering or medicine or business or law
의학, 사업, 법 분야의
they achieved things.
평균 나이입니다.
you've got to wait 37 years ...
기다려야 한다는 것이에요.
that you're remembered for --
중요한 성취를 처음으로 하는 나이가요.
die at the age of 81 --
81세로 생을 마감할 거예요.
얘기해봅시다.
your stride in your 20s.
최상의 컨디션을 가질 것이고요.
입문하실 수 있습니다.
only commendable act in their mid-40s.
그리고 가끔은 처음이자 마지막으로
more than just a descriptor.
분석해보고 싶었습니다.
first paragraph of all 2,000 obituaries,
모두 다 분석했죠.
for two groups of people:
나눠서 했습니다.
and people that are not famous.
안 유명한 사람들로요.
Ali, Zaha Hadid --
자하하디드 같은 분들.
are people like Jocelyn Cooper,
of most of their names.
이 이름들 안들어보셨을 겁니다.
but they're not famous.
그러나 유명하진 않습니다.
these two groups separately --
나눠서 분석한다면 어떨까요?
안 유명한 사람들로요.
should thank your parents --
부모님께 감사하세요.
your obituary when you're gone.
여러분의 부고를 오려두라고 하세요
from lives well-led,
많은 본받을 점을 발견했는데
in print could teach us.
인쇄되어 불멸하였죠.
to the kaleidoscope that is life,
인생의 매혹적인 증거였습니다.
majority of obituaries
그 사람들 모두
in the fabric of life.
인생에 남겼어요.
back to your daily lives:
여러분 스스로에게 물어보세요.
쓸 수 있을까?
trying to be famous in death,
삶을 죽어서 유명해지는데 쓴다면
될 것이라는 점이니까요.
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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