Keynote: The Stories We Tell Our Children
summary
Stories shape who joins and stays: claim—children’s books encode social norms and responses to trauma, shown by Itamar Ben Avi reviving Hebrew after 1,700 years and Miriam Roth’s 1974 A Tale of Five Balloons teaching healthy grief; tools actually used—books, conference imagery, tutorials, GitHub issues and Twitter; surprising numbers—first native Hebrew speaker in 1,700 years and a book twice as popular as The Cat in the Hat; things built and whether they worked—changed Rails welcome imagery and CodeNewbie and dev.to communities deliberately shift norms and show measurable uptake.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The impact of stories
- 3:27Hebrew language revival
- 10:35A tale of five balloons
- 17:00Context of Israeli culture
- 25:08Lessons from children's books
- 37:39Flat for rent
- 50:38Building better communities
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