What helps is when you actually sit down and try to jot some notes down from a TED "lecture" on the "subject" of "creativity", and all you end up with are three meanderingly abrupt sentences that say things like "monkeys play with balls", "humans like the colour red", "cheese was developed by mistake".
The feeling that you've wasted your time is so powerful it's almost existentially thrilling.
via www.theawl.com
From the comments on a piece about Fast Company's hagiography on the TED conferences.
