tedxssn - disregard work acquire hobbies
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This is the TEDx talk I gave at SSN college. You can watch the video here - http://bit.ly/g0FhLCTRANSCRIPT
The futuristic cutting edge innovation of the leveraging of
synergy between personal time optimization and the value proposition
of extra curricular activities
Krish Ashok
Disregard Work, Acquire Hobbies
Krish Ashok
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Krish Ashok
Jalsa
Violin
Satire Jilpa Guitar
Web 2.0
Humour
CelloCreativity
Peter
Kasamusa
Travel Atheism Science
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Kinds of Humour
Mix the old and the new
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Kinds of Humour
Mix the old and the new
Mix popular culture & tradition
Darth Vaadhiar is a metaphor
for excessively opinionated
people stuck in a time warp
Darth Vaadhiar finds your lack
of unoriginality……disturbing
#CHEEKARMAMKARMAM
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Virinjufied hair
No Thaali
No Bindi
Virinjufied hair
No Thaali
No Bindi
#LAKSHANAMISTIC
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5
Kinds of Humour
Mix the old and the new
Mix popular culture & tradition
Male Chauvinism
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Kinds of Humour
Mix the old and the new
Male Chauvinism
Contemporary Absurdity
Mix popular culture & tradition
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Kinds of Humour
Mix the old and the new
Male Chauvinism
Contemporary Absurdity
Remix and Repurpose
Mix popular culture & tradition
Apple Radio ads in Tamil
Suppress, Oppress & Depress
Mozarellasura Linguini Stotram
TR - Indi speaking
Pyaar To Unka Joota Hai
TR - Autotuned
Melodyne
Logic Pro
Everything is a Remix
Culture is always Derivative
Stuff people do
Time
dy
dt
This is the Hobby era
Age of the Right Side of
the Brain
The notion that the best way for
a human being to enjoy his life
is to specialize in one thing and
one thing only is ridiculous
Do not ever give up your hobbies
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Quit your job when it’s necessary
The joy of the creative process
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Differentiate between Life and Livelihood
Don’t (just) respect your elders
Respectfully question them
Talent = Time + Manic obsession
Leon Battista Alberti
Author, artist, architect,
poet, priest, linguist,
philosopher and
cryptographer
Thank you
Photo Credits
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