JJ Abrams at TED

I am a TED Head. I love the lec­tures at the TED Con­fer­ence. What began as a small con­fer­ence in Cal­i­for­nia has grown to a global com­mu­nity, many mil­lion strong, focused on exchang­ing and spread­ing ideas. If you have seen some of their lec­tures, please do so, it’s an eye open­ing experience.

Any­one who is inter­ested in com­mu­ni­cat­ing and get­ting peo­ple to pay atten­tion to ways to build sus­pense in your audi­ence should watch JJ Abrams’ (cre­ator of Lost, the New Star Trek, Alias and so on) great lec­ture The Mys­tery Box at the 2007 TED con­fer­ence. For writ­ers, film mak­ers, design­ers or any­one who has to give a pre­sen­ta­tion his ideas on how to get the audi­ence to want more is defi­antly worth check­ing out.

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2 Comments

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  Jennifer Farley April 28, 2009 at 11:36 pm

  God Bless TED!

  I haven’t really watched any of JJ’s shows on TV but he is really inter­est­ing to lis­ten to. Funny too.

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  Devlin April 29, 2009 at 11:24 pm

  JJ Abrams is a great speaker. His films and TV shows usu­ally start out great, with fan­tas­tic and mys­te­ri­ous premise. But I find he often goes off the rails a bit in the third act. But still worth­while stuff.