John attends the World Economic Forum in Davos (January 2016)
story · status: followed over 3 videos (2016) · last event: update (2016-01-29)
In January 2016 John travelled to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, feeling a little out of place on the way. A week later he reported on the town, the forum and the people he met there.
Parts: John invites viewers to follow his Davos trip on Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat (2016) · John: give Hank some thoughts from Davos in next week's video (January 2016) · John: look at the big problems from Davos (income inequality, climate change, refugees, gender inequality and poverty) in coming weeks (2016)
About: World Economic Forum, Davos
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-19 | told | John is on his way, via an airport, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and already feels a little out of place. | The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday 00:00:03 |
| 2016-01-26 (happened 2016-01) | update | John reports he spent last week (the week of 18 January 2016) in Davos for the World Economic Forum and describes the town, the forum and the people he met. | Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 00:00:01 |
| 2016-01-29 | update | During this week's (week of 25 January 2016) Dear Hank and John recording John told Hank about his World Economic Forum article 'Why the Word Millennial Makes Me Cringe', which Hank read right afterwards. | Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe 00:00:53 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — John is in an airport on his way to the World Economic Forum in Davos, a gathering of world leaders, CEOs and Leonardo DiCaprio, and already feels a little out of place. — 00:00:01
- 2016-01-26 · Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — John spent last week (week of 18 January 2016) in Davos, Switzerland, which most of the time is a fairly standard alpine ski village with souvenir shops and babies in sleds. — 00:00:01
- 2016-01-26 · Billionaires and Radical Hope: Thoughts from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — John says that one week a year Davos is taken over by the World Economic Forum, a throng of CEOs, world leaders, scientists and security guards ostensibly gathered to improve the world. — 00:00:10
- 2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — Hank agrees that the word 'millennial' totally makes him cringe. — 00:01:04
- 2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — Hank relays John's point that the word 'millennial' was assigned not by millennials but by baby boomers, and popularised in articles and op-eds by non-millennials. — 00:01:08
- 2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — Hank says such articles generally made sweeping generalisations about America's most diverse group of young people, complained young people acted unexpectedly, or stoked other generations' anxiety about 'unknowable snake people'. (playful) — 00:01:20
- 2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — Hank sums up: one group created a term for another and used it to call them scary, belittle and mock them, which is going to make people cringe. — 00:01:35
- 2016-01-29 · Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe — Hank grants that the word's original definition was separate from its use to talk about how weird young people are, but says that use has happened and continues. — 00:01:45