Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings”

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Sarah Cooper talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Chorus CEO Dick Costolo about why she left a career in the tech industry to become a stand-up comic. Cooper has made tech a central part of her comedy and has written a book based in part on her time at Yahoo and Google called “100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings.” The group debates whether people who work in tech are funny (on purpose) and whether depictions of them in popular culture, on shows like HBO’s “Silicon Valley” or CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory,” are really hitting their mark. Plus: Cooper previews her next book, “How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings,” which will include tips such as “be authentic by hiding yourself." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:10.2	You may know me as the only person wearing sunglasses on a rainy day, but in my spare time I
0:14.4	talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players,
0:19.0	big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:21.8	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music,
0:26.2	wherever you listen to podcasts, or just visit recode.net-podcast for more.
0:32.0	Today I'm in San Francisco where it is a rainy day with Dick Costello, the former CEO of Twitter,
0:38.3	but Dick has a new role and he's joining me for several bonus episodes of Recode Decode
0:42.6	this month, talking about comedy and tech.
0:45.2	Bonus.
0:46.2	Bonus episodes.
0:47.2	It's not a regular episode, it's a plus one.
0:50.2	It's a plus one episode.
0:51.5	And so Dick has done stand-up.
0:53.2	He almost was a comedian and then made.
0:56.0	A mockery in Twitter.
0:57.6	That's my life.
0:58.6	He was almost a bunch of different things.
1:00.6	Yeah, he almost a thing.
1:01.6	Yes, but now we're entertained by Twitter every day.
1:04.4	So it's kind of funny.
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