Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
Lux Narayan: Čo som sa naučil z 2 000 nekrológov
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,
okolo areálu v Standforde
jogging there as well.
ktoré tam tiež behávali.
from side to side like that?
z jednej strany na druhú?
he set out to understand why.
zaumienil si na túto otázku odpovedať.
about many things:
I hadn't heard of Joseph Keller.
o Josephovi Kellerovi nevedel.
New York Times,
of editorial dedicated to him,
for a newspaper of their stature.
priestor pre noviny ich postavenia.
I'm rather morbid
že je trochu morbídne
and a "Let's see who died today."
„Pozrime so, kto dnes zomrel.“
is usually bad news,
sú zvyčajne zlé správy
cues accomplishment
poukazujú na úspechy,
in the obituaries.
on future insights
from past data --
z predošlých dát –
to obituaries from the New York Times?
nekrológy z New York Times?
aby bol aj váš nekrológ uverejnený,
your obituary featured --
aby ste sa z toho mohli tešiť?
between 2015 and 2016.
medzi rokmi 2015 a 2016.
rather, lives -- teach us?
skôr životov – naučilo?
worded descriptor
capture an achievement or a lifetime.
zachytiť úspech alebo celý život.
people who died in the last two years.
ktorí zomreli počas minulých 2 rokov.
„spracovanie prirodzeného jazyka“,
natural language processing,
you can mime easily in "Charades," --
significant words.
and of course, art, are huge.
a samozrejme, umenie, tých tu je velľa.
why in so many societies
prečo v toľkých spoločnostiach
engineering or medicine or business or law
strojárstvo, medicínu, biznis alebo právo,
they achieved things.
you've got to wait 37 years ...
that you're remembered for --
za ktorý si vás ľudia budú pamätať –
die at the age of 81 --
keď zomriete ako 81-ročný –
your stride in your 20s.
svoj úspech v dvaciatke.
jediný záslužný čin v štyridsiatke.
only commendable act in their mid-40s.
tu je pár príkladov.
a za čo si ich pamätáme?
priekopníčka vo svete striptízu]
more than just a descriptor.
viac ako len kľúčové slová.
first paragraph of all 2,000 obituaries,
všetkých 2 000 nekrológov,
for two groups of people:
pre 2 skupiny ľudí:
and people that are not famous.
a tí, ktorí nie sú.
Ali, Zaha Hadid --
are people like Jocelyn Cooper,
ako napríklad Jocelyn Cooper,
of most of their names.
týchto mien nepoznáte.
but they're not famous.
ale nie sú slávni.
these two groups separately --
analyzujeme osobitne –
should thank your parents --
by mali poďakovať svojim rodičom –
your obituary when you're gone.
si vystrihli váš nekrológ, keď odídete.
from lives well-led,
z dobre prežitých životov
in print could teach us.
zvečnení v tlači môžu naučiť.
to the kaleidoscope that is life,
toho, aký čarovný život je,
majority of obituaries
in the fabric of life.
ktorý okolo nich prebiehal.
back to your daily lives:
aby som pomohol spoločnosti?
trying to be famous in death,
aby boli po smrti slávnymi,
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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