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2021-06-16 23:16:00

**What should I say at a funeral? | Lessons from rural Kenya**
This is the story about my mother, a funeral in East Africa, and the failings of the English language. When I went to my first visitation as an adult, I was just barely an adult.  An adorable high school cheerleader that I had known since daycare had been killed in a car accident.  I was […]
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**What should I say at a funeral? | Lessons from rural Kenya**
This is the story about my mother, a funeral in East Africa, and the failings of the English language. When I went to my first visitation as an adult, I was just barely an adult.  …
https://articulate.ventures/what-should-i-say-at-a-funeral-lessons-from-rural-kenya

2021-05-19 18:02:59

**3 Ways to Tell Your Story Better**
First Impressions are critical, we know this. Recently in the Articulate Ventures Network, we ran a cohort that lasted a month with one goal: Improve an introduction. Whenever I've given introductions in the past, I had one of two problems, I'd give too much detail or I hyper simplified. My background is complex, but aren't […]
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**3 Ways to Tell Your Story Better**
First Impressions are critical, we know this. Recently in the Articulate Ventures Network, we ran a cohort that lasted a month with one goal: Improve an introduction. Whenever I've given introductions in the pas…
https://articulate.ventures/3-ways-to-tell-your-story-better

2021-04-30 14:45:59

**The Coming Cultural Wave**
Last night I attended an indoor party. Change is coming.
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2021-04-22 14:56:06

**The Most Important Part of an Introduction**
Endings are the most important part of your introduction The entire reason you want to deliver a great introduction is to empower the right people to come up to you afterwards and talk with you. A great ending doesn't have to be complicated.  Also if for some reason you got lost in the middle of […]
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**The Most Important Part of an Introduction**
Endings are the most important part of your introduction The entire reason you want to deliver a great introduction is to empower the right people to come up to you afterwards and talk with you. A grea…
https://articulate.ventures/the-most-important-part-of-an-introduction

2021-04-08 12:29:30

**How to Get Better at Introducing Yourself**
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Children readily reply with simple answers: fireman, nurse, doctor, priest, astronaut… To a child what you do is who you are. But as you reach adolescence, the complexities of life begin to crowd in.  You begin to realize: Being a priest means you can’t be […]
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**How to Get Better at Introducing Yourself**
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Children readily reply with simple answers: fireman, nurse, doctor, priest, astronaut… To a child what you do is who you are. But as you reach adolescenc…
https://articulate.ventures/how-to-get-better-at-introducing-yourself

2021-03-25 03:04:30

**Lessons Learned from 1 Year Working with Virtual Reality**
Virtual Reality is still in the early adopter phase; so when most people use it they don't see it's raw potential. After holding dozens of events, even interviewing one of the most important tech CEOs of the modern age- we have seen what will make VR more powerful than a Zoom call could ever be... […]
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**Lessons Learned from 1 Year Working with Virtual Reality**
Virtual Reality is still in the early adopter phase; so when most people use it they don't see it's raw potential. After holding dozens of events, even interviewing one of the most import…
https://articulate.ventures/lessons-learned-from-1-year-working-with-virtual-reality

2021-02-15 14:54:34

**The Well-Actually Graph: How Ideas Spread into society, and where new ideas can be injected.**
For five years I worked for the agriculture company Monsanto. At the time, Monsanto had a reputation for being an evil company. Even I had that perception prior to working there and really only took the interview for the job because I thought it was like getting a tour of North Korea… as long as […]
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**The Well-Actually Graph: How Ideas Spread into society, and where new ideas can be injected.**
For five years I worked for the agriculture company Monsanto. At the time, Monsanto had a reputation for being an evil company. Even I had that percept…
https://articulate.ventures/the-well-actually-graph-how-ideas-spread-into-society-and-where-new-ideas-can-be-injected

2021-02-10 01:45:03

**Persuasion requires that you look individuals in the eyes.**
Judgement. When most people are giving a speech they willfully ignore or are ignorant of the response written on the faces of every single person within earshot. It is much easier to look out on the crowd, parsing the audience not as individuals but as clusters of people that you are vaguely pointing your message […]
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**Persuasion requires that you look individuals in the eyes.**
Judgement. When most people are giving a speech they willfully ignore or are ignorant of the response written on the faces of every single person within earshot. It is much easier to lo…
https://articulate.ventures/persuasion-requires-that-you-look-individuals-in-the-eyes

2021-02-10 01:01:35

**If you want to reach other people, learn to draw your ideas.**
A few years ago, I was invited to address a room full of graduate students studying agricultural sciences at the University of Kentucky. One of the students, a man studying seed breeding from Iraq, asked me a very simple question about reaching people that don’t study farming. “What is one skill we can develop to […]
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**If you want to reach other people, learn to draw your ideas.**
A few years ago, I was invited to address a room full of graduate students studying agricultural sciences at the University of Kentucky. One of the students, a man studying seed breed…
https://articulate.ventures/if-you-want-to-reach-other-people-learn-to-draw-your-ideas

2021-02-03 13:14:00

**How to say something valuable in a speech.**
When I am asked to give a speech, I try to think about this question: what is one truth that no one agrees with you on? No matter how many times I answer it for myself, the question forces me to think deeply about saying something valuable to an audience that has invited me to […]
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**How to say something valuable in a speech.**
When I am asked to give a speech, I try to think about this question: what is one truth that no one agrees with you on? No matter how many times I answer it for myself, the question forces me to think …
https://articulate.ventures/how-to-say-something-valuable-in-a-speech