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Sarah Cooper

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first: 2018-01-10
most recent: 2018-01-10
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Who can be the most authentic and the most authentic way is somehow better than everyone else. And I don't know if that's because we're on the internet. We're all watching people on the internet. We're like pretending to do all of these things and show how great we are. And maybe it spreads faster because we're all on the internet instead of talking to each other in real life as much as other industries.”
2018-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Um, I feel like a lot of other workplaces said that they see a lot of these same things. So I'm not sure it's particular to tech, except that there does seem to be this Olympics of earnestness. And so the person...”
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“As I was saying earlier, Peter God bless him. I love him. By the way, this is something my grandma of the words say right before she was about to eviscerate somebody. Peter is the comedy dehumidifier. He sucks the...”
2018-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I get anxiety a lot of times listening to these thought leaders who are telling me that I need to be working towards my goal every minute of every hour of every day. And if I'm not, then I'm failing. And what am I doing if I don't love Mondays? There's something wrong with me. And I think that there's a lot to be made fun of there, especially with the clones that they create because a lot of times it's not necessarily the thought leader. It's the people trying to emulate and become that thought leader. And they're not emulating the passion. They're just emulating the pretending of the passion. And so it's, yeah, it's hysterical.”
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“Exactly. All of the things that you see people doing a lot of times to make it look like they know what they're doing when really they have no idea what they're doing. Right.”
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“Yes, they're great. The way that I do them is pretty hacky, though. I take pictures and I trace them. And so that's my husband and two friends pretending to be in meetings. And I took pictures. I'm not sure like 88.”
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“I like the Kanye. It's basically if you, I forget the number, but if you're going around the room and everyone's giving an update and somebody's about to give an update, you can say, hey, Dick, Dick, I just want to stop you right there. Everyone, Dick is going to give an update. That's really important. So if you could just listen to Dick, that would be great. Okay, Dick, go ahead. Continue. And then.”
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“Oh no. Oh no. Absolutely. Just spend five minutes taking pictures and it'll look like you really care about documenting stuff. But don't worry about sending them out because nobody's.”
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“So keep going. He showed up to my house in bike pants once that I just. Oh no. Oh no. And like weird hats and it was very strange anyway. Sorry, John, but you did it. So this is my favorite. Take pictures of ideas at the end of a meeting.”
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“It was my favorite movie. Oh, that's awesome. If you look crazy, you look smart. That's another one. Like if you look insane.”
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“No, you have to. 25%. Of our users. No, shortly after the article came out, I was in a meeting with a VP at Google and he was pacing around the room, which is one of them. And he asked the presenter to go back a slide, which is another. He was doing that at the same time. And he looked over at me and he winked.”
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“Yes, that's another big one. I did that one a lot. That was me, guys. What problem are we really trying to solve? Let's back up. Let's back up and look at this. Let's back up. Can we back up here? Just for a second.”
2018-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Explain the book. Explain the book. So the book is a continuation of the original 10 tricks. It's called 100 tricks to appear smart in meetings. And it's basically everything I observed.”
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“Well, yeah, especially if it's the smartest person in the room, which is usually the software engineer. If they said something, just repeat it very, very slowly. And then people will remember you as the one who actually said that.”
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“So he just handed the marker to someone else to finish drawing, and he sat back down and went back to his laptop, and I was like, my God, that was brilliant. He just contributed nothing, but he looked like he did something. And people will remember that he got up to the whiteboard and drew something. So I wrote that down in my notebook, How to Look Smart in Meetings, draw a Venn diagram. The second one was the fractions one. That's a good one. Someone was presenting a statistic and they said, oh, 25% of people clicked on this button and another product manager probably said, oh, about one in four.”
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“This product manager got up and drew a Venn diagram. And this Venn diagram made absolutely no sense. And I thought for sure somebody was going to say, you know what, you're wasting time. This has nothing to do with what we're talking about. But instead, everyone was like, no, no, no, make this circle a little bigger, make this one a little smaller. Let's change the labels.”
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“You out. You just got a lot of response. Yeah. That's the inscription that I wrote on your book, by the way, is that Dick, you probably know a lot of these tricks already.”
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“Um, they were supportive, very supportive, and it's one of those things where it's a bigger risk not to do it because you can always go back to Google. Within a year, a lot of times if things don't work out, you can go right back. You can get your same username.”
2018-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was in New York and I decided to leave because I wrote an article called Tentrix to appear smart in meetings and it got a lot of virality in a good way. And I decided to.”
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“All the software engineers have it. And I just think that nothing is sacred. They would make fun of anything and everything. So I thought it was great.”
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“Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, it was kind of ironic that, you know, I kind of felt like I was giving up on my dream. But a lot of other people's dreams is to work at Google. So my fallback career was other people's main idea of a great career. And it turned out to be a great place to work. I was scared to go back into a nine to five job, but I fit right in and it was really awesome. And there are a lot of really funny people at Google. So I loved working there.”
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“For drinks and fill the seats, and I was bringing a lot of my Googler co workers to my shows. But they have money, so that worked out well.”
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“Exactly. So they have trouble filling seats in New York. And so in order to get people into the audience, they asked the comedians to bring people and they're called bringer shows. And if you bring a certain amount of people, then you can get on stage. So for some shows, you had to bring five people, some you had to bring like 15 people to get on stage. And so I was bringing.”
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“I did go to New York, and that's where you actually pay to perform. You bring people through that. Let me take you through.”
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“No, that was in Atlanta. Okay. It was at the Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta. And then I decided, you know what? I'm ready for the big time. I'm moving to New York.”
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“I told a story about a date gone wrong. I was a single girl, and so I was just telling a dating story that's kind of, you know, what you're supposed to do. And they couldn't get me off stage. I was up there for eight minutes. It was supposed to be five. So I was really, I really enjoyed it.”
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“Lot more than reading other people, which is stronger. I mean, it's interesting what I noticed last night at the Golden Globes is all these actors are so good at acting are really bad at speeches. And it was really interesting. I was thinking, why can't they? And then I realized why they can't.”
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“What I was doing, but I found comedy before that because I loved performing and was just really bad at it. I tried to be an actress and I just was very stiff on camera and I just wanted to figure out how to be myself more because good acting is really surprising and interesting and fun to watch. And so I decided, hey, if I can get on stage and be myself in front of an audience, maybe that'll help me be a better actor. And that made me realize I actually like writing my own material a lot more than reading other people, which is stronger.”
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“One part of the interface. Just the, I don't know, it sounds so cheesy, but the toolbar, the toolbar. I really enjoyed designing the toolbar and trying to come up with ways to make it seem familiar enough, but not too much like Microsoft. Right, right. So that was kind of.”
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“You must. This is my job on the line here. No, I designed the interface for Yahoo Travel and then for Flickr. And then at Google, I was a user experience designer and then manager for Google Docs. Yeah.”
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“I made buttons. Listeners. I made blue buttons and I made yellow buttons with text on them that said click here. Click here. No, I actually created, I'm like totally doing disservice to user experience designers now.”
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“No, I always loved making people laugh. It was kind of, I was kind of the one who was easing tensions in my family at home and things like that. That was always my role. But I loved acting and I loved performing. And I was at Yahoo for a little bit and then I turned 30 and kind of had this user experience designer”
2018-01-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Sarah Cooper, author, "100 Tricks To Appear Smart in Meetings” · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Anyway, she worked at Google for more than three years before it was deciding to quit and become a comedian. She is now, which I'm sure she got plenty of materials. She's now a stand-up comic, the creator of a satirical blog called The Cooper Review, and the author of the book One Hundred Tricks to Appear Smart in Meeting, Sarah, welcome to Recode Decoding.”
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