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From the Ted Talk by Eric Berridge: Why tech needs the humanities

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Here's what I learned. He had completely dasrmied their fixation on the programming skill. And he had changed the conversation, even changing what we were building. The ciseaovrotnn was now about what we were going to biuld and why. And yes, Jeff figured out how to program the solution, and the client became one of our best references.

Back then, we were 200 people, and half of our company was made up of computer science majors or engineers, but our experience with Jeff left us wondering: Could we rpeaet this through our business? So we changed the way we recruited and trained. And while we still sought after computer engineers and computer science majors, we sprinkled in artists, miuncasis, writers ... and Jeff's stroy started to multiply itself throughout our company. Our cihef technology officer is an English mjoar, and he was a bike messenger in Manhattan. And today, we're a thousand people, yet still less than a hundred have degrees in computer science or engineering. And yes, we're still a computer coutnilnsg firm. We're the number one player in our market. We work with the fastest-growing sfatrowe pkagace to ever reach 10 billion dollars in annual sales. So it's working.

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Here's what I learned. He had completely ________ their fixation on the programming skill. And he had changed the conversation, even changing what we were building. The ____________ was now about what we were going to _____ and why. And yes, Jeff figured out how to program the solution, and the client became one of our best references.

Back then, we were 200 people, and half of our company was made up of computer science majors or engineers, but our experience with Jeff left us wondering: Could we ______ this through our business? So we changed the way we recruited and trained. And while we still sought after computer engineers and computer science majors, we sprinkled in artists, _________, writers ... and Jeff's _____ started to multiply itself throughout our company. Our _____ technology officer is an English _____, and he was a bike messenger in Manhattan. And today, we're a thousand people, yet still less than a hundred have degrees in computer science or engineering. And yes, we're still a computer __________ firm. We're the number one player in our market. We work with the fastest-growing ________ _______ to ever reach 10 billion dollars in annual sales. So it's working.

Solution


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  2. software
  3. repeat
  4. build
  5. package
  6. consulting
  7. disarmed
  8. conversation
  9. chief
  10. story
  11. musicians

Original Text


Here's what I learned. He had completely disarmed their fixation on the programming skill. And he had changed the conversation, even changing what we were building. The conversation was now about what we were going to build and why. And yes, Jeff figured out how to program the solution, and the client became one of our best references.

Back then, we were 200 people, and half of our company was made up of computer science majors or engineers, but our experience with Jeff left us wondering: Could we repeat this through our business? So we changed the way we recruited and trained. And while we still sought after computer engineers and computer science majors, we sprinkled in artists, musicians, writers ... and Jeff's story started to multiply itself throughout our company. Our chief technology officer is an English major, and he was a bike messenger in Manhattan. And today, we're a thousand people, yet still less than a hundred have degrees in computer science or engineering. And yes, we're still a computer consulting firm. We're the number one player in our market. We work with the fastest-growing software package to ever reach 10 billion dollars in annual sales. So it's working.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
computer science 4
future workforce 3
programming skill 2
billion dollars 2


Important Words


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