He lived in detailed spreadsheets and 1,500-word emails. Matt 's communication style tag: "Email deep diver. Full context only." My friend Liz loves a voice memo.You send her a text message, and she sends you back a voice memo.
Today we have an awesome guest, Matt Abrahams. Matt Abrahams is a leading expert in communication, with decades of experience as an educator, author, podcast host,and coach. He's a lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he teaches popular classes in strategic communication and effective virtual presenting.
Well, we are very excited for your book. Matt 's book, "Think Faster, Talk Smarter, How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot," comes out later this week.Is it on September 26, if I'm not wrong?
I knew I had to be here for 1:30. Matt was incredibly laid back, started talking about the past and so forth.I'm thinking, where do we get to the gig?
Yeah, you mentioned it. Matt asks, when you write, do you find that you bring any of your structural engineering expertise to the writing process itself,
Yeah, Matt . Matt , they stuck you next to me.I'm so sorry. That's OK.
I've never seen that approach taken with a biopic like you did with this. Matt , there are a lot of references in this movie, including things-- and we talked about this a little bit earlier-- "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and "They
But we felt like there was stuff that would be exciting to engineers as well as to people coming from different backgrounds. Matt , maybe you can elaborate on how it all came to be.Yeah, well, the book as a whole wants to get across both the excitement of the use of data to investigate the human condition, the world,
in our everyday lives. Matt ? Yeah, and we very much wanted all along the way for people to see that the collection of data always involved a vision that the world was something thatcould be understood largely in numerical terms, and that it needed infrastructures of collection-- initially paper, nowadays, large-scale servers.
Hello, professors. It's great to see how far the course has come since the first semester in which I was a student. Matt , remind me, how did we get this idea?
How do you turn that into-- I mean, the nuance and detail, how do you turn that into a two and a half hour stage play? Matt Spangler did a remarkable job and had to make very judicious cuts.Certain characters had to be removed.
She just let me absorb it, and it changed me in, I think, a really good way, and it's something I try to do with my own kids. Matt had an interesting childhood.And Matt , I don't want you to actually necessarily comment on this, but just a teaser for the book.
inside my head and how I tried to process this. Matt -- and I hope I showed a multidimensional portrait of Matt as well because I think he has many positive qualities.He was --willingly prepared.
And I just kind of-- I don't know how to this day how I convinced my parents to help me fund this dream of qualifying for a national team. Matt , you know how difficult that is.It's hard, financially difficult.
I also want to give a very special thanks to Matt Bongiovi out of our London office. Matt brought this talk to Google and was instrumental in its preparation, so a big thank you to Matt .Walter Isaacson, it is my great honor to welcome you to "Talks at Google." Thank you very much.
I think the other thing that has helped some restaurants is the ones that have had the means or the wherewithal to own their own buildings, which is a huge deal right now Matt Horn started at a farmer's market in Tracy selling his incredible barbecue.
"I'll get my computer and do my work outside your room, OK?" Maggie nods, knowing she's won this round. Matt would call me a sucker.And so I skip the hour of me time and sit down on the floor in the hall, open my computer in my lap,
Yeah. Our friend Matt , I don't know, is Matt going to talk about it with us? Matt , do you mind sharing that ??All right. Of course.
Orin. Huh? Orin? Orin Matt . Matt . OK. I'm Eric, by the way.So I definitely think that that's probably the most important thing that I actually was going to be one of the talks--
Matt just draws funny stuff that pops into his head, like this.
Matt Barr, another wonderful star.
Matt 's dad mows the yard on Sundays.
Matt 's from Texas. He doesn't-- Matt wasn't invited, I don't think I was hired yet.
Matt just comes in with his Texas style and you go, all right, horses.
Matt , you move in these circles.
Matt Mercer is Bey.
Matt Lauer had not been fingered as a bad guy yet.
Matt was at Princeton.
Matt says, oh, that feels good.
Matt -- Multi-layered. And he's working with a Jew.
Matt is Google's head of editorial and, prior to that, was chief speechwriter for former Vice President Joe Biden.
Matt I received an email from Matt 's mom saying he just finished his first year of college and he didn't make any
Matt hey mat hi what do you want the world to
Matt just got a Caddy, and he brought it into the office.
Matt 's spent some time on Nantucket.
Matt had done extensive research.
Matt knows the solution to the puzzle, and one of my attorneys knows the solution to the puzzle.
Matt , who's driving a lot of our mobile stuff is there.
Matt , where are you?
Matt , you came in at year two photographing on the set and taking portraits and all that.
Matt , going to your portraits, your 4x5 portraits, which are really stunningly beautiful, what was your method?
Matt , this is a big question.
Matt , you've got the shiniest shoes.
Matt Bridley has a fun sort of story about why is it fun to be Louis XIV,
Matt and I actually met via a tour of his home, which is kind of weird.
Matt is the founding principal of THRIVE Net Zero Energy Consulting Collaborative and the co-founder of Mission Zero Fest.
Matt and I had-- we all had been producing these web shorts.
Matt and I took it to everywhere from "Comedy Central" to "Saturday Night Live" to "MADtv" to-- where else did we go?
Matt rowed, by the way.
Matt , Happy Birthday, RA Salvatore" or I'll just put something in. And so Saturday we did the e-signing for Charon's Claw. He drove up to my house with 900 of them. And 100 of