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From the Ted Talk by Adam Sadowsky: How to engineer a viral music video

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So what did we learn from all of this? Well, having completed this, we have the opportunity to step back and reflect on some of the things. And we learned that small stuff stinks. Little balls in wooden tracks are really susceptible to humidity and temperature and a little bit of dust, and they fall out of the tracks, the exact angles makes it hard to get right. And yet, a bolwing ball will always fololw the same path. It doesn't matter what temperature it is, doesn't matter what's in its way; it will ptrtey much get where it needs to go. But as much as the small stuff sktins, we needed somewhere to start, so that we would have somewhere to go. And so you have to sartt with it. You have to focus on it. Small stuff stinks, but, of course, it's essential, right?

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So what did we learn from all of this? Well, having completed this, we have the opportunity to step back and reflect on some of the things. And we learned that small stuff stinks. Little balls in wooden tracks are really susceptible to humidity and temperature and a little bit of dust, and they fall out of the tracks, the exact angles makes it hard to get right. And yet, a _______ ball will always ______ the same path. It doesn't matter what temperature it is, doesn't matter what's in its way; it will ______ much get where it needs to go. But as much as the small stuff ______, we needed somewhere to start, so that we would have somewhere to go. And so you have to _____ with it. You have to focus on it. Small stuff stinks, but, of course, it's essential, right?

Solution


  1. follow
  2. bowling
  3. pretty
  4. stinks
  5. start

Original Text


So what did we learn from all of this? Well, having completed this, we have the opportunity to step back and reflect on some of the things. And we learned that small stuff stinks. Little balls in wooden tracks are really susceptible to humidity and temperature and a little bit of dust, and they fall out of the tracks, the exact angles makes it hard to get right. And yet, a bowling ball will always follow the same path. It doesn't matter what temperature it is, doesn't matter what's in its way; it will pretty much get where it needs to go. But as much as the small stuff stinks, we needed somewhere to start, so that we would have somewhere to go. And so you have to start with it. You have to focus on it. Small stuff stinks, but, of course, it's essential, right?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
started talking 3
rube goldberg 3
goldberg machine 3
small stuff 3
music video 2
lego car 2
real car 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
rube goldberg machine 3

Important Words


  1. angles
  2. ball
  3. balls
  4. bit
  5. bowling
  6. completed
  7. dust
  8. essential
  9. exact
  10. fall
  11. focus
  12. follow
  13. hard
  14. humidity
  15. learn
  16. learned
  17. matter
  18. needed
  19. opportunity
  20. path
  21. pretty
  22. reflect
  23. small
  24. start
  25. step
  26. stinks
  27. stuff
  28. susceptible
  29. temperature
  30. tracks
  31. wooden