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What are the underlying, unspoken values of TED?

7th December 2010

My answer to What are the underlying, unspoken values of TED? on Quora

Not unspoken, but the ten commandments they send out to their speakers are pretty interesting: http://www.ted.com/pages/360

Posted 7th December 2010 at 4:50 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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