RSA Shorts: Dr Brene Brown, The Power of Vulnerability

I cannot tolerate this woman; she's a charlatan. She started the talk objecting to having a "white guy in a suit", that this would be the "last thing she'd want" on the cover of her book. Think for a moment if she had said the same about a black guy in a suit and the social media shriekers would have gone wild. This is the longest, most tedious TEDTalk never to appear on YouTube.

I don't believe that her negative social media comments were largely about her appearance and not about her cherry picking of "tens of thousands of pieces of data". Constructing an inaccurate but plausible narrative is much easier when you can cherry-pick from research that no one has read or will ever read which then she blatantly ladles with lashings of Oprah-style axioms.

In the wake of the popularity of Peterson, Rubin, the Weinsteins, Pinker, Murray et al her lightweight content seems almost 90s quaint. Far better to stick with them.