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A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the free press, which is now reposted on my substack, about how Ted sandbagged my talk on colorblindness. Chris Anderson, the head of Ted,

wrote a response on X, which I responded to promptly. But Chris wrote a follow-up, and the social

scientist Adam Grant also wrote a public response, neither of which I've publicly responded to.

A number of people have asked me if I plan to respond, so here I go. From my perspective, it's pointless to continue a public conversation with Chris without him acknowledging the core allegation of my piece and apologizing for it.

Simply put, Chris pleaded with me to adopt a strange release strategy in order to amplify my talk, which I suspected was a bit of corporate spin doctoring at the time.

Then, Ted did the opposite of Amplify My Talk.

They deliberately under-promoted and sandbagged it on their website.

And while Chris has called my version of events reasonably accurate,

he's been careful to neither admit nor deny this core accusation.

If he thinks I'm wrong, he should just say so.

But if he acknowledges I'm right, which is all but conceded by his silence on the issue,

then decency requires owning up to it and apologizing. Instead, he's chosen this middle

path where he says a bunch of stuff without addressing the elephant in the room.

Besides that, I have very little to say about Chris's public statements that has not already been said. Jesse's single substack post, for instance, was really great.

I'll just echo a few of Jesse's points here. First, Chris seems to view this situation as a

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