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From the Ted Talk by John Hockenberry: We are all designers

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I mean, did a designer come up with that? No, I don't think a designer did come up with that. In fact, maybe that's the problem. And so, little Ajax was born. He's like our other children, but the eernixpcee is completely different. It's something like my aniecdct, right? He came out of nowhere. But we all had to change, but not just react to the given; we bend to this new experience with intent. We're five now. Five. Facing the given with ientnt. Doing things by design. Hey, the name Ajax — you can't get much more intentional than that, right? We're really hoping he thanks us for that later on. (Laughter)

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I mean, did a designer come up with that? No, I don't think a designer did come up with that. In fact, maybe that's the problem. And so, little Ajax was born. He's like our other children, but the __________ is completely different. It's something like my ________, right? He came out of nowhere. But we all had to change, but not just react to the given; we bend to this new experience with intent. We're five now. Five. Facing the given with ______. Doing things by design. Hey, the name Ajax — you can't get much more intentional than that, right? We're really hoping he thanks us for that later on. (Laughter)

Solution

  1. accident
  2. experience
  3. intent

Original Text

I mean, did a designer come up with that? No, I don't think a designer did come up with that. In fact, maybe that's the problem. And so, little Ajax was born. He's like our other children, but the experience is completely different. It's something like my accident, right? He came out of nowhere. But we all had to change, but not just react to the given; we bend to this new experience with intent. We're five now. Five. Facing the given with intent. Doing things by design. Hey, the name Ajax — you can't get much more intentional than that, right? We're really hoping he thanks us for that later on. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
poorly designed 3
bad design 2
eye contact 2
flashy wheels 2
anders breivik 2
completely invisible 2

Important Words

  1. accident
  2. ajax
  3. bend
  4. born
  5. change
  6. children
  7. completely
  8. design
  9. designer
  10. experience
  11. facing
  12. fact
  13. hey
  14. hoping
  15. intent
  16. intentional
  17. laughter
  18. problem
  19. react