Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
Lux Narayan: Ce am învățat din 2.000 de necrologuri
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,
prin campusul din Stanford,
jogging there as well.
femeile care alergau pe acolo.
from side to side like that?
părul prins în coadă în modul acela?
he set out to understand why.
și-a pus în minte să afle asta!
cu privire la multe lucruri:
about many things:
I hadn't heard of Joseph Keller.
nu auzisem de Joseph Keller.
of editorial dedicated to him,
din editorial dedicată lui,
for a newspaper of their stature.
spațiu premium pentru un astfel de ziar.
I'm rather morbid
crede că e morbid
and a "Let's see who died today."
și un „hai să vedem cine a murit astăzi".
is usually bad news,
sunt de obicei știrile rele,
cues accomplishment
duc la realizări
in the obituaries.
în necrologuri.
o companie care determină viitorul
on future insights
from past data --
retrospectivă.
to obituaries from the New York Times?
a necrologurilor din New York Times?
your obituary featured --
îți ajungă necrologul publicat,
să te bucuri de el?
between 2015 and 2016.
între 2015 și 2016.
rather, lives -- teach us?
sau mai degrabă vieți, să ne învețe?
worded descriptor
capture an achievement or a lifetime.
o reușită sau o viață întreagă.
people who died in the last two years.
care au murit în ultimii 2 ani.
natural language processing,
procesarea limbii naturale,
you can mime easily in "Charades," --
ușor de mimat la „Mima"
significant words.
and of course, art, are huge.
și desigur, artă, sunt imense.
why in so many societies
în așa de multe societăți
engineering or medicine or business or law
inginerie, medicină sau drept,
they achieved things.
au parte de reușită.
you've got to wait 37 years ...
că trebuie să aștepți 37 de ani
that you're remembered for --
pentru care rămâi în memorie,
când mori la vârsta de 81 de ani.
die at the age of 81 --
în funcție de meserie.
your stride in your 20s.
la 20 de ani.
only commendable act in their mid-40s.
lucru lăudabil în jur de 45 de ani.
more than just a descriptor.
decât descrierile.
first paragraph of all 2,000 obituaries,
din toate cele 2.000 de necrologuri,
for two groups of people:
două categorii de oameni:
and people that are not famous.
și oameni care nu sunt faimoși.
Ali, Zaha Hadid --
Zaha Hadid,
are people like Jocelyn Cooper,
precum Jocelyn Cooper,
of most of their names.
că nu ați auzit de niciunul.
but they're not famous.
dar nu sunt faimoși.
these two groups separately --
analizăm categoriile separat:
should thank your parents --
să mulțumiți părinților voștri.
your obituary when you're gone.
necrologul când muriți.
from lives well-led,
în viețile trăite bine
in print could teach us.
cei imortalizați în ziar.
to the kaleidoscope that is life,
a acestui caleidoscop ce este viața,
majority of obituaries
a necrologurilor
lucruri extraordinare.
in the fabric of life.
în țesătura vieții.
back to your daily lives:
ca să ajut societatea?
trying to be famous in death,
încercând să fie faimoși prin moarte,
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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