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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Obser.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com.

For 11 years now, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative types

about what they do, how they got to be who they are and what they're thinking about.

On this podcast, Debbie Millman talks with Chris Anderson about how the TED conference has helped change the way we learn.

For the first time, we can see examples of the best educators, speakers, idea-sharers,

out there.

We can see what they do.

We can be inspired by them.

Here's Debbie Millman. Death, taxes, and public speaking.

The first two are inevitable, but for most of us the prospect of giving a speech in front of total strangers is the stuff of nightmares.

Who better to help us than the man behind the TED conference?

Chris Anderson became the curator of the Ted Conference in 2002

and Ted videos are now viewed about a billion times a year.

The presentations by speakers from all walks of life are usually

short, smart, and always compelling. Chris Anderson's new book is called Ted Talks, the official Ted Guide to Public Speaking.

He joins me now to talk about it and about his career pre-Ted.

Chris Anderson, welcome to Design Matters. Thanks Debbie.

Chris, I understand that you're quite a good cook and one of your specialties is

chicken jalfresi? What is chicken gal fresi and how did you learn to make it?

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