It's really about using humor in small intentional ways at the right moment to diffuse tension, read the room. Naomi , what were you going to say with your mute?You were perfect. Oh, no, the timed lights in the office went out, so I had to grab pieces of tissue and throw them across the room so
So that was how a totally ridiculous inside joke turned into a selling a book. Naomi was having dinner with him a couple of years ago.
I am hugely excited to have the Naomi Campbell with us today. Naomi and I met a few years ago in a very romantic setting, at a wedding.And we've collaborated since.
Did you have to sacrifice things for your success?" Naomi , my mother's been watching, making comments, my five daughters, and so-- Oh, wow.
So what are we looking for? Naomi 's clapping it up for us.We are looking for fair representation.
Great. Thank you, David. Naomi , why don't you come up and join us.Round of applause for the film.
That's really where the idea came from. Naomi , we just saw a clip from your experience in Vietnam.
I believe that they're working on that here. And I'll bring up Naomi to explain that. Naomi Bilodeau: This is the perfect opportunity for me to put in a plug for the access eng team. We have head count in our team.And if you would like to come and help us work on these problems, we have a list of interesting problems we're working on right now.
We are working on it. We've got that going now for businesses, Google Video for business. Do you want to explain some, Naomi ? Naomi Bilodeau: So if you guys look at our internal videos on Google Video for business, you can see there's a slider that has a rabbit and a turtle.If you slide it up to the rabbit end, it goes faster.
I have so many questions already for both of you based on those intros. So Naomi , maybe if I can start with you, I know there's actually an extraordinary little story in the book about this sort of dual life, effectively, that you were leading.
So that was how a totally ridiculous inside joke turned into a selling a book. But Naomi , you have hosted a fabulous workshop at X with my team, and there were some great suggestions and tips
So that was how a totally ridiculous inside joke turned into a selling a book. And Naomi , it sounds like your house is getting totally destroyed by dogs.
So that was how a totally ridiculous inside joke turned into a selling a book. As Naomi mentioned, a lot of people that used to use humor, maybe, when they were lower levels of status now feel like they can't, and
I mean, I've taken "Being Naomi " all over the African continent. "Being Naomi " has gone everywhere in terms of-- It's a little different, though, to now, as well as I know when I go to work, the team are there. Production, photographer, hair and makeup.
we're all in some sort of jeopardy." And when the time is right, she means it, she really means it, so that she does say what she really gives-- Naomi gives her boss later, tells him that Erin did wonderful work. And so she is looking to help her along.
She recently just finished the project of "Batkid Begins." How many of you sort of followed the whole phenomenon of Batkid in San Francisco? So Naomi just finished a film with Time Warner on that extraordinary story. She's also been a board member for Global Lives for several years.
and walk away and come back. So Naomi Pomeroy, who's the chef at Beast in Portland, which is an amazing restaurant, she told me she uses the internet all the time to learn new techniques and to
A lot is going on. And as Naomi Klein says in her "Shock Doctrine," this disorientation that comes from a shock to the system comes from losing one's narrative.
Thank you so much for joining. I am Naomi Arun. And I will be moderating the session today.
And as such, I can't think of a better person than Naomi to be with us here today. Most of you Naomi as a supermodel, but she's also a trailblazer, an activist, an amazing philanthropist, especially with her work in Africa.
And when people search for you on YouTube or Google, that's what they get. They get the real Naomi . I love it. They get No Filter Tuesdays.
So you had No Filter Tuesdays, and you had Being Naomi . And Being Naomi started first, which is my vlog. I didn't even know this word "vlog." It's all still brand new to me.
I love the intimacy of it, and I don't want to ever lose that part of it because I love where it started from and how it was born. And "Being Naomi " shows you me, and the things I do, and the things I want to share, and just wherever I go. I mean, I've taken "Being Naomi " all over the African continent.
Did you have to sacrifice things for your success?" What is next for Naomi ?" Ooh, oh my goodness.
And everybody from Vaclav Smeal, who's one of my heroes-- he's written these amazing books about our consumption and our use of materials. Everyone from him to Naomi Klein to Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activist, is now saying a modern version of the de-growth argument. They're saying, economic growth has to stop.
And when we received it, I looked it up and I was like, oh, this is a very big deal. And folks like Naomi Klein have received it. Desmond Tutu has received it, Noam Chomsky has received it.
Yeah, we talked-- that scene was a really intricate and very difficult scene really, because I think that we established a back story that Naomi was actually very supportive and brought Erin in and nurtured her and moved her along. And actually, one of the things that the women emphasized a lot, the women that I spoke to, was that it was very important-- the mentor-mentee relationship
that you could count on in a crunch. And I think that Naomi really feels that way about Erin. But she's got-- right now, she's just experienced this failure.
And interestingly enough, in reference to filmmaking, in the edit room, we played a lot with, what order to put the scenes. And do we put Naomi asking for her promotion first or Erin asking first. And they told different stories.
That's really where the idea came from. The filmmakers-- Naomi volunteered her time.
And I'm absolutely delighted to welcome Jennifer Bagdonas and Naomi Aaker today to talk about their new book, "Humor, Seriously". If you have any questions for Naomi or Jennifer, I encourage you to submit them since we will be taking audience questions later in the talk. And with that, let me introduce our two guests.
This was just so backwards from my life. And so it was this moment-- Naomi irons but doesn't re-iron. Just want to be clear.
We are fashionably late. I am hugely excited to have the Naomi Campbell with us today. Naomi and I met a few years ago in a very romantic setting, at a wedding.
I didn't even know this word "vlog." It's all still brand new to me. And then "No Filter with Naomi " started in March. Sitting at home, after I'd work out, I'd be like, what can I do now?
But I wasn't much less angry at the left. I'd read a new book by Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything", in which she'd assured the reader that although time is tight, we still have 10 years to radically remake the global economy and prevent global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
There should be a balance. But we know from people like Naomi Wolf that global warming remains a huge problem, may indeed be the biggest problem of all
And I just want to add one thing, because it was relative to what we were just talking about-- women internalize it more. So Erin's-- the no from Naomi , Erin's internalizing is, I'm a failure, as opposed to the timing's bad. And that goes back to what we were saying, like if a man gets a no, they might bounce back more quickly
It's why we're so excited to have David and Naomi here with us today. He is joined as well by Naomi Ture. She filmed the Vietnam portion of this exhibit.
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. I just finished "Uprooted" nu Naomi Novik.
and walk away and come back. There are a couple of chefs-- Naomi Pomeroy at Beast in Portland was really funny.
I'm very good friends with two scholars at Stanford named Naomi Bagdonas and Jennifer Acker.
I am CFO of X and a devout fantasy and sci-fi nerd. And I'm absolutely delighted to welcome Jennifer Bagdonas and Naomi Aaker today to talk about their new book, "Humor, Seriously". If you have any questions for Naomi or Jennifer, I encourage you to submit them since we will be taking audience questions later in the talk.
Her work has been featured in "The New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", "Harvard Business Review", among others, and on her mother's fridge. In her spare time, Naomi runs a teaching program teaching improv comedy in San Francisco's county jail and fosters a revolving door of rescue dogs whom she adores and who systematically destroy everything she owns.
Noted. I still have an iron. Lesson learned. But Naomi 's story is not unusual. And as she said before, once she actually started bringing humor more into the work life, she, and we all,
So if you see me just like frantically doing something like this, I'm just throwing tissues. Actually, what Naomi 's doing right now, which was not planned, is like another thing, is just as a leader at parlor bridge, just calling it, just calling the truth, because everyone's been in these situations.
And part of this is just diffusing pressure, making it OK to be normal, and that would unlock these more creative selves. A small anecdote. Naomi and I took this to an extreme. When we started working on our book proposal, inspired by Astro, we called it a really shitty book proposal just
So that was how a totally ridiculous inside joke turned into a selling a book. I certainly encourage others to spend time with Naomi and Jennifer.
So that was how a totally ridiculous inside joke turned into a selling a book. You go first, Naomi .
So we do marketing and fundraising. Thank you very much, Naomi , and all the friends, Googlers who watched this program-- namaskar to all of you.
If I recall correctly, Naomi never wanted to say it was dating, but when it moved in a romantic relationship.