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What’s a zig a zig ah?

May
07

Yeah, 17 years later, people are still asking the question: What’s a zig a zig ah?

For those of you not familiar with pop culture, once upon a time, there existed an all-girl pop group called The Spice Girls. For some reason, they became a thing, and when their hit single “Wannabe” hit the top of the charts, and everywhere we turned, we heard that all they really really wanted was a “zig a zig ah”, people starting asking Google what that meant.

Now, 17 years later, we’re still getting up to 9,900 searches a month on that phrase.

Very helpfully, urban dictionary defines it as “what scary spice really wants”.

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Twitter’s Dick Costolo was an improv comedian, and this speech shows.

May
07

Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, gave a commencement speech at the University of Michigan where he graduated, and it’s a mixed bag of wisdom, wit and encouragement.

He started off by tweeting a photo from his vantage point, and then went into his experiences, first with improv, and then with Twitter, citing some of the impact and milestones Twitter had over the years.

He talks about living for the now, and how we should not plan too much, because “Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it even while you’re having it.”

He talks instead, about making bold choices, particularly with finding your passion, and working toward that.

In a nutshell, it’s really an awesome speech. Watch.

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