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Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED

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What it is

Skateboarding pioneer Rodney Mullen talks about how the open skate community and its environments drive the invention of new tricks out of pure passion. He draws parallels to collaboration and open source.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people share it as an inspiring talk linking skateboarding creativity to hacking and open-source knowledge sharing.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “His talk really inspired me follow my creativity.”

    Talk on innovating in your field.

    iam_takada, 2018-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”

  2. “talks a bit about the relationship between hacking and skateboarding in his TED talk”

    Mullen on the relationship between hacking and skateboarding.

    ridv, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression”

  3. “Godfather of skateboarding”

    Rodney Mullen's TED talk drawing parallels between skaters and hackers.

    lloeki, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020”

  4. “has a great TED Talk on epistemology in skateboarding”

    Mullen on epistemology in skateboarding and parallels with open source.

    psychomugs, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)”

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Topics: rodney mullen, skateboarding, innovation, open source, ted talk

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