He's such a good public speaker. That speech at the beginning with connecting the story of the writing system with the modern fantasy/fiction community was really well done.

bro i’m so glad i get to experience this in my lifetime. born too late to explore the world, too early to explore the galaxy, born right on time to explore the cosmere with brandon. thanks man you’ve done more for the world than you could ever comprehend ❤

I didn't expect to get a crash course on the history of the Korean writing system here. Awesome?

Snotty communities criticizing popular fantasy even happened to Tolkien. The other established writers were jealous. One even called his great novels 'JUVENILE TRASH'. And they put other writers on a pedestal - writers who didn't even have that much experience. Tolkien on the other hand was a LINGUISTICS PROFESSOR. He should be admired more than everybody!

"I'm trying to visit them all. It's a bit like pokemon." Lol

I love this guy. Brandon Sanderson seems like such a cool guy. Plus I would love to hang out with a young Dalinar

That reading was excellent, love the Stormlight books and am super hype for number three!

I love this. Accept to connect, criticize but don't shame, take the time to read with the intention of finding what people love about what you don't love.

I wish someone had asked Brandon what his favourite female character in all his books is ... for me it's Steris in Mistorn Era 2 (the Wax and Wayne books), she's not the biggest character but I love her so much, the way she develops gives me tingles and I have quite literally fallen in love with her. I love it when a seemingly straight edged character turns out to be something unexpected who in turn changes the life of another character around her.

"between 33 and 36 books" only fuckin Sanderson XD

Bout time you guys got Sanderson on. Love his books.

Oh my gosh, the Cosmere is gonna move from fantasy to sci fi? That is freaking cool.

Reading starts at 29:38

I'm definitely a gardener. I suck at outlines :( I have a hard time figuring out a plotline, but I love exploring characters' thoughts/personalities/environment.

Is it just me? He always reminds me of Chandler Bing. I love watching him speak. Very candid.

Your plea is granted in my heart, God bless the power of connectivity through fiction! Also, Brandon Sanderson fiction in particular. :)

Brandon Sanderson is an amazing author. Steelheart is my favorite book.

i took a creative writing course in college once, but the teacher only criticized my writing when i didn't use cliches. "the sun doesn't do [whatever i said]. it does [worn-out hack phrasing]." so it turned out not to be much of a creative experience after all. more like color by numbers. which is fine if you're still in grade school. but we had some cool guest speakers who were better, mainly cuz they were actually writers with genuine creative skills, and not just an establishment grammarian with none. not that i'm bitter...

Tough crowd. Google stole all the fun out of them!

Brandon is amazing

Brandon, you're amazing.

Great guy, I love the stormlight series, best part is, the audio book comes out on my birthday. I just finished wot, and im in a low at the moment.

I got chills when he started reading. He read so dang well!

These people be like... "What is an Arrakis?"

Because the people who liked scifi and fantasy were beat down for decades until it became popular and mainstream. Now it's a general culture thing watch superhero movies. You can wear an Iron Man shirt and no longer be considered an outcast. But for the OG nerds, going past the Hollywood versions of things still makes you an outcast. Other people can latch on to the awesome thing we've known about for years, but without the effort or the trials of liking something even when it's not popular. It's actually the same argument for cultural appropriation. Something held close to a small group who struggles to be accepted suddenly becomes mainstream, and that once tightly held piece of culture is now owned by people outside of the original group. The culture is now controlled by people who did not work to create it, but by a larger mass of what was outsiders. Those outsiders then dictate to the originals what is and what isn't part of the culture. The originals respond by fighting to keep what was.

I love seeing how middle eastern women with hijabs constantly use it to solve minor problems. "No hands free? Stuff the phone in there." "Need a cosplay that works with your outfit? No Face or ninja."

Was this audience forced to attend this lecture? Pretty deadbeat group of Googlers if you ask me ;)

I love how he brings up the UAE! I lived there!

"IT'S MY PEOPLE, I've come home, I've traveled across the world to a completely different culture, and I found THE SCIENCE FICTION NERDS."

I used to live in Sharjah! Awesome

He’s got a really good point

Q & A 18:00

He... is way too witty for this audience... or for this world.

1:05 start of the actual talk

Yo I’m hyped

Damn, he is so educated. It is ridiculous.

Hell I read the turtles in black and white... :) Not that I'm trying to claim supremacy or anything, I'm only watching this as I'm grinding through his lectures at present.

anyone know if this is a fandom shirt? he usually wears one.

How many google campuses are there?

What a badass, just reading from a phone

I love dalinar

Woooooooow The badge thing is an inside joke at Google And very nice sidestep by Brandon when he didn’t get it

My favorite mormon

I kind of suck at storytelling. I love building the worlds and then I plop the characters in and they are the cogs of the world which doesn't conduce a good story since usually people continue reading for the characters, the world is simply the hook to lure people in. I just make notes and notes and I write lore and eventually I have 2000 years of history and almost a 100 000 words in notes but not a single complete chapter. By then I'm already bored with the world and I start another one. They make great D&D games but otherwise they suck. I have a few magic systems from Lord of the Rings stuff (magical magic) to hard fantasy stuff up to hard tables like LitRPG. I haven't found a single compelling story that has interested me and isn't horribly Campbellian. The closest I've come to is an Aladin kind of girl who DOES not have a mentor figure ever and has to live with a broken ability in both popular meanings of the term. But I hate writing slice of life since they tend to plod along.

@-@ it "sounds" cooler in my head. i think i'll prefer to avoid audiobooks no matter how good the material is.

Soulless audience really, but great talk by Brandon.

How come the ones who invented Google Maps didn't know where Sharjah was?

2000 words a day, a slight bit faster than Rothfuss - Rothfuss himself is jealous of Sanderson, he has a post on GoodReads on one of Sanderson's books talking about it - his fans (Rothfuss) just wonder that if he would concentrate on writing rather than playing video games, maybe he'd get some work done. That's just what I read, I really don't know if he is playing on twitch all the time like people say.

No! Not the horse! 😱💔💔

Who picked the thumbnail

"J. K Rowling has been very accepted by the community" ... this didnt age well, did it?

10:45 On the point of making scholarship more accessible: deunt wii hav dha seim problem widh tradishanl speling ov Inglish? Wai not meiking _it_ mor aksesibl? Eu, rait, wii'd sii dha seim grymbling from olredi haili literet piipl abaut it biing a weist ov taim and a kooz ov aua sivilaizeishn kalapsing, wii'd hia dha seim styf abaut heuli tradishanz and shit. Byt wud dhat grymbling bi karekt? Not at ool.

The first person to translate the Bible into (Old) English was the Venerable Bede, a saint, in the 7th century. He definitely didn't get burned at the stake. Love the talk though.

ps: Sanderson is a bad boye.

Well, he never stopped preaching to the choir, but great speech nevertheless

I am dumb

The presenters at google seem useless.

That's pretty funny, if the Bible was not put into English, none of them (the speaker and his fellows, that being, Americans) would not believe in it. I mean, of course, the Bible is hopeless anyway, there's simply no way it means what it says it means due to how many times it had been rewritten and re-edited and translated, etc. It's funny just to say 'which set of Ten Commandments do you follow?' since there be more than one, this works every time. Although, I am not overlooking the burning part, I mean, anybody, at all, being burnt is one of the worst things ever. Obscene history is an understatement.

10:34 -- "[...] I think the only major alphabet that was designed by scholars rather than arising accidentally." Let's hope that Brandon Sanderson "the biochemist" is more knowledgeable than Brandon Sanderson "the philologue". I often wonder why is it so that Americans in general are such poor linguists... Anyway, Korean is hardly "the only major alphabet that was designed by scholars"🙄. Almost 600 years before king Sejong's project, in IX century AD, Saint Cyril and Methodius -- who were brothers, Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries -- devise the Glagolitic script, THE FIRST ALPHABET USED TO TRANSCRIBE OLD CHIRCH SLAVONIC. Both brothers are venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as saints with the title of "equal-to-apostles". In 1980, Pope John Paul II -- the first Slav pope -- declared them co-patron saints of Europe. The Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire by the disciples of Saints Cyril and Methodius at the end of the 9th century.

he turned fat after getting rich