The Good and Bad of Modern Airports and the End of an Era at Google
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the good and bad of modern airports. They also discuss the end of an era at Google/Alphabet, with the co-founders now stepping away from their operating roles.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
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| 0:22.1 | PRX.org |
| 0:23.4 | slash after hours. Thanks. |
| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone. You're listening to after hours. I'm young me and I'm here with |
| 0:47.6 | Felix and me here. Hey guys. Hey. So I have a question for both of you. How many |
| 0:52.3 | people have asked you whether Mehere is saying, |
| 0:56.7 | hey, it's me here or hey, it's me here? |
| 1:01.5 | Oh, who? And... Hey, it's Mehere. An endless number. |
| 1:06.0 | So Mehere, you need to clarify. |
| 1:08.0 | You know you're digging up wounds from my youth of how I was mocked. |
| 1:12.0 | So I was thinking of taping a new promo where I said, hey, it's not me here, it's young me here. |
| 1:20.0 | There you go. |
| 1:22.0 | So before we get into this week, we have to say something about this email we've |
| 1:29.8 | been getting. You mean listener's emails? Yes. Yeah. It's amazing. |
| 1:33.4 | We've mentioned this before, but every week there's more and more email on every topic we discuss and it's |
| 1:40.1 | incredible in its depth. I mean just take the one we got about this carbon |
| 1:43.5 | engineering story. It's like a science education in one email and it made me want to |
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