New Yorker Conference
Spoke at the New Yorker conference in the Gehry building on 18th st. in NYC. Great views of the Hudson river, but on the whole the building on the inside is nowhere near as quirky as on the outside. Somehow I thought there’d be no right angles or something.
The conference was great fun and very fancy. Much fancier than academic, industry, or DC policy events. It was sort of a glamor conference — the New Yorker even hired what in industry we used to call booth bunnies.
Jeff Toobin interviewed me for the conference, here’s the video.
The truth is with a great interviewer you can sound way better than you really are. I’d like to do all my presentations as interviews, or as a team, actually. Ideally like the Marx brothers.
Doing long solo presentations on academic topics can be tough or boring unless you are larry lessig.