Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
Lux Narayan: 2000 ölüm ilanından öğrendiklerim
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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kampüsünde dolaşırken,
around the Stanford campus,
jogging there as well.
kadınların dikkatini çekerdi.
from side to side like that?
bir sağa bir sola sallanırdı?
he set out to understand why.
nedenini anlamaya çalıştı.
about many things:
şeyi merak ederdi.
I hadn't heard of Joseph Keller.
Joseph Keller'ın adını duymamıştım.
of editorial dedicated to him,
sayfalık bir başyazısı vardı,
for a newspaper of their stature.
bir alanda yer alıyordu.
I'm rather morbid
"Bakalım bugün kimler ölmüş" diye
and a "Let's see who died today."
is usually bad news,
genelde kötü haberlere
cues accomplishment
işaret ettiği bir örnek
in the obituaries.
on future insights
verilerden hareketle
from past data --
bir şirket işletiyorum
to obituaries from the New York Times?
geçmiş analizi yapsak ne olurdu?
your obituary featured --
yapan dersler var mıydı?
20 aylık süre boyunca
between 2015 and 2016.
rather, lives -- teach us?
bu yaşamlar bize neler öğretti?
worded descriptor
başarı yakalamaya çalışan,
capture an achievement or a lifetime.
people who died in the last two years.
ünlü insanlardan bazıları.
natural language processing,
gibi gereksiz sözcükleri
you can mime easily in "Charades," --
edebileceğimiz türdeki sözcükleri atar.
significant words.
için de yaptık.
and of course, art, are huge.
ve tabii ki sanatın oranı büyüktür.
why in so many societies
başarılı olabileceğini düşündüğümüz
engineering or medicine or business or law
hukuk gibi bölümlerde okumaları için
merak etmelisiniz.
they achieved things.
you've got to wait 37 years ...
that you're remembered for --
die at the age of 81 --
başarınızdan önce
your stride in your 20s.
20'li yaşlarda parlar.
only commendable act in their mid-40s.
övgüye değer eylemler yaparlar.
more than just a descriptor.
analiz etmeyi arzuluyorduk.
first paragraph of all 2,000 obituaries,
ilk paragrafının tamamını ele aldık,
for two groups of people:
and people that are not famous.
Ali, Zaha Hadid --
are people like Jocelyn Cooper,
of most of their names.
duymamışsınızdır.
but they're not famous.
başarılar, ama ünlü değiller.
these two groups separately --
ayrı ayrı analiz edersek,
should thank your parents --
ailenize teşekkür etmeli.
your obituary when you're gone.
ilanınızı kesmesini hatırlatın.
from lives well-led,
birçok ders ve baskıyla
in print could teach us.
öğretebileceklerinden sonuçlar çıkardık.
to the kaleidoscope that is life,
etkileyici bir vasiyettir.
majority of obituaries
in the fabric of life.
olumlu bir etki yarattılar.
back to your daily lives:
kendinize şunu sorun:
yeteneklerimi nasıl kullanıyorum?
trying to be famous in death,
fazla insan hayatını yaşarsa,
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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