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Uselessness | Andrew McCarthy | TEDxIEMadrid

3,584 views · Published 2 October 2015 · 15:34 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Why your brain hates you so much.
Why you have been trying to be and build the wrong things for the wrong people at the wrong times.
Why you are doomed to repeat history, and 
What to do about it.
How you could (maybe!) become an actual human being.

Andrew Peter Wallace McCarthy is a designer, facilitator, entrepreneur, innovation and creativity consultant, and educator. He has almost two decades of international experience as an art and creative director in multinationals and advising corporations on creativity, strategy and innovation processes. He is an Adjunct Professor at IE and collaborates on educational ventures with the TeamLabs, Impact Hub, h2I, IDE, and Studio Banana. Andrew is an innovation, design, or user advocacy officer with various companies and mentor or advisor to a number of startups. His professional interests also include Lean and Agile methodologies, but he is most interested in how we ever think anything we aren’t already thinking and using whatever practices work. Andrew enjoys improv, speaks and moderates at conferences, and his voice has been featured in ads and audiobooks, at his daughters' bedtimes, and to the startlement of animals great and small.

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