Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
Lux Narayan: Czego nauczyłem się z 2000 nekrologów
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,
dla zdrowia po kampusie Stanford
jogging there as well.
które też tam biegały.
from side to side like that?
he set out to understand why.
postanowił to zrozumieć.
about many things:
interesowało wiele rzeczy:
I hadn't heard of Joseph Keller.
kilka miesięcy temu.
of editorial dedicated to him,
połowę strony redakcyjnej
for a newspaper of their stature.
zaszczytne miejsce w gazecie tej klasy.
I'm rather morbid
że to trochę makabryczne,
and a "Let's see who died today."
i "Zobaczmy, kto tam dzisiaj zmarł".
is usually bad news,
to zwykle złe wieści,
cues accomplishment
mówią o dokonaniach,
in the obituaries.
on future insights
wyciągnąć z posiadanych danych.
from past data --
przez wsteczne lusterko.
to obituaries from the New York Times?
do nekrologów w New York Timesie?
your obituary featured --
do publikacji własnego nekrologu,
between 2015 and 2016.
rather, lives -- teach us?
a raczej te życia?
i pierwszy premier Singapuru]
worded descriptor
capture an achievement or a lifetime.
którzy odeszli przez ostatnie dwa lata.
people who died in the last two years.
natural language processing,
języka naturalnego.
you can mime easily in "Charades," --
zobrazować w kalamburach,
significant words.
and of course, art, are huge.
i oczywiście sztuka dominują.
why in so many societies
że w tak wielu społeczeństwach
engineering or medicine or business or law
w inżynierii, medycynie lub prawie
they achieved things.
you've got to wait 37 years ...
that you're remembered for --
za które zostaniemy zapamiętani,
die at the age of 81 --
po śmierci w wieku 81 lat...
your stride in your 20s.
koło dwudziestki.
only commendable act in their mid-40s.
chwalebny czyn po czterdziestce.
more than just a descriptor.
coś więcej niż kluczowe słowa.
first paragraph of all 2,000 obituaries,
akapity wszystkich 2000 nekrologów,
for two groups of people:
dla dwóch różnych grup:
and people that are not famous.
Ali, Zaha Hadid --
are people like Jocelyn Cooper,
pierwszej czarnej kongresmence]
of most of their names.
but they're not famous.
these two groups separately --
should thank your parents --
powinny podziękować rodzicom.
your obituary when you're gone.
żeby wycięły z gazety wasz nekrolog.
from lives well-led,
in print could teach us.
w druku mogli nas nauczyć.
to the kaleidoscope that is life,
świadectwem kalejdoskopu życia,
majority of obituaries
pozornie niesamowitych.
in the fabric of life.
back to your daily lives:
zapytajcie siebie:
by pomóc społeczeństwu?
trying to be famous in death,
by pamiętano o nich po śmierci,
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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