99U | Starlee Kine: Fear, Heartbreak, and Making It Happen Against All Odds @99u | Uploaded November 2012 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
About this Presentation
In this entertaining talk, This American Life contributor and producer Starlee Kine shares her vision of our ideas as rambunctious little orphans that need to find a home. So how do we get them out into the world, and send them on their way? For Kine, the answer is persistence, collaboration, fear, and sheer force of will.
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1:46 I think I'm going to like it here (how to find a good home)
3:54 If you find something you know you belong to, become a fan
5:00 Your own life can really be interesting
6:29 It's a hard knock life (how to not feel bad)
8:00 Short Story: The breakup
12:16 Ideas on your own; you fall and it won't always work out
13:15 Phone call with Phil Collins
14:55 It's lonely being alone in your thoughts
15:18 Collaborate! It's important - Kine collaborates with people that can create things she can keep in her house
16:12 Turning the worst parts of labor into something creative
18:02 Tomorrow (hot to make fake deadlines work)
18:26 Scare yourself - Fear is a great motivator
19:04 Assignment: Write ideas down somewhere, everywhere.
About Starlee Kine
Starlee Kine is a radio producer and writer. She is a regular contributor to the public radio show This American Life. Her dispatch on sad break-up songs won the Third Coast International Audio Festival's Gold Prize for best radio story. You can also hear her on the CBC show, Wiretap.
Her writing has appeared in WIRED, Gourmet, and the New York Times Magazine. With The Thing Quarterly, she created a limited-edition cutting board, specifically meant to be used to chop up onions. She has performed live for the Moth Mainstage and is co-creator of "The Post-It Note Reading Series." She is finishing up her first book, It IS Your Fault, about her adventures in the self-help industry.
About 99U
The 99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn't get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen.
About this Presentation
In this entertaining talk, This American Life contributor and producer Starlee Kine shares her vision of our ideas as rambunctious little orphans that need to find a home. So how do we get them out into the world, and send them on their way? For Kine, the answer is persistence, collaboration, fear, and sheer force of will.
Watch more videos here: 99u.com/videos
1:46 I think I'm going to like it here (how to find a good home)
3:54 If you find something you know you belong to, become a fan
5:00 Your own life can really be interesting
6:29 It's a hard knock life (how to not feel bad)
8:00 Short Story: The breakup
12:16 Ideas on your own; you fall and it won't always work out
13:15 Phone call with Phil Collins
14:55 It's lonely being alone in your thoughts
15:18 Collaborate! It's important - Kine collaborates with people that can create things she can keep in her house
16:12 Turning the worst parts of labor into something creative
18:02 Tomorrow (hot to make fake deadlines work)
18:26 Scare yourself - Fear is a great motivator
19:04 Assignment: Write ideas down somewhere, everywhere.
About Starlee Kine
Starlee Kine is a radio producer and writer. She is a regular contributor to the public radio show This American Life. Her dispatch on sad break-up songs won the Third Coast International Audio Festival's Gold Prize for best radio story. You can also hear her on the CBC show, Wiretap.
Her writing has appeared in WIRED, Gourmet, and the New York Times Magazine. With The Thing Quarterly, she created a limited-edition cutting board, specifically meant to be used to chop up onions. She has performed live for the Moth Mainstage and is co-creator of "The Post-It Note Reading Series." She is finishing up her first book, It IS Your Fault, about her adventures in the self-help industry.
About 99U
The 99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn't get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen.
