Tim Ferriss – Web 2.0 Keynote
Here is my 5-minute presentation on the “Low-Information Diet” at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Other keynoters included Eric Schmidt of Google and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. I was invited to speak after winning an audience vote at the “Ignite” competition a few nights earlier. The rules? The presentation had to be 5 minutes long, and you needed to have exactly 20 slides, which advanced automatically every 15 seconds. That explains why I’m speaking so quickly 
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i consider Eric Schmidt is one of the best brains on earth now .. i like the way he think
Haha, I am admittedly a recent fan of Tim Ferriss. It’s funny, I’ve been really into personal development for years, and I just discovered him a couple of months ago. That’s interesting that you mention study abroad – I just got back from a six-month study abroad program in Europe; it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! I’ll definitely go and check out your site – some pointers for scholarship applications could be quite useful. As to your “hacking” comment – I’m an efficiency geek and have been studying a lot of trends in blogging, and you can see how a small group of people just leverage what works and skyrocket through the ranks. It’ll be a neat little experiment to see what can be done!
Why should an innocent suggestion of reading on decision research make you react fearfully? Or are you referring to my characterization of the likelihood of audience decisionmaking?We have huge volumes of information at hand, but it doesn’t seem to make good decisionmaking possible for people. There are several reasons for this and decision research only looks at the interaction of more than one individual. It is an outgrowth of jury theory and most lawyers can tell you about how individual jurors interact and the group dynamics of a jury.On the individual level, it is obvious that there are lots of people that have no ability to cull junk out fo their information diet. Misinformation becomes integrated into their understanding of the world as radioactive calcium becomes part of bone.We all make mistakes. It is only bad when we refuse to learn from them. That includes the ability to read a book and learn from it.