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From the Ted Talk by Chris Anderson: TED's nonprofit transition

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Number one: do nothing. This thing ain't broke, so I ain't gnnoa fix it. Jeff Bezos kidlny rrmeaked to me, "Chris, TED is a really great conference. You're going to have to fuck up really blady to make it bad." (Laughter) So, I gave myself the job title of TED Custodian for a reason, and I will promise you right here and now that the core values that make TED special are not going to be interfered with. Truth, curiosity, diversity, no selilng, no corporate bhillust, no bandwagoning, no platforms. Just the pursuit of interest, wherever it lies, across all the disciplines that are represented here. That's not going to be changed at all.

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Number one: do nothing. This thing ain't broke, so I ain't _____ fix it. Jeff Bezos ______ ________ to me, "Chris, TED is a really great conference. You're going to have to fuck up really _____ to make it bad." (Laughter) So, I gave myself the job title of TED Custodian for a reason, and I will promise you right here and now that the core values that make TED special are not going to be interfered with. Truth, curiosity, diversity, no _______, no corporate ________, no bandwagoning, no platforms. Just the pursuit of interest, wherever it lies, across all the disciplines that are represented here. That's not going to be changed at all.

Solution

  1. bullshit
  2. gonna
  3. kindly
  4. selling
  5. remarked
  6. badly

Original Text

Number one: do nothing. This thing ain't broke, so I ain't gonna fix it. Jeff Bezos kindly remarked to me, "Chris, TED is a really great conference. You're going to have to fuck up really badly to make it bad." (Laughter) So, I gave myself the job title of TED Custodian for a reason, and I will promise you right here and now that the core values that make TED special are not going to be interfered with. Truth, curiosity, diversity, no selling, no corporate bullshit, no bandwagoning, no platforms. Just the pursuit of interest, wherever it lies, across all the disciplines that are represented here. That's not going to be changed at all.

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