Editing Rodney Mullen (section)

=== Public speaking ===
Mullen has completed numerous public speaking engagements and has been invited to present on topics such as his personal life, skateboarding, innovation, creation, and the concept of community.

The [[Lemelson Center]] at MIT invited Mullen to visit the center, a part of the [[National Museum of American History|Smithsonian's National Museum of American History]] to discuss invention and innovation from within the context of American society. The Lemelson Center exchanged ideas and views with Mullen about skateboarding, in addition to the manner in which creativity and innovation can contribute to the development of an improved society.<ref name="Lem" />

Mullen was invited by the [[Sapling Foundation]], as part of its [[TED (conference)|TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design)]] public speaking series, to present at the [[University of Southern California]] (USC) in June 2012. Mullen's talk was entitled, "How Context Shapes Content", and featured his perspectives on the manner in which the street-based context of skateboarding influences his practice, in addition to his view of the skateboarding community, whereby he compared the community to the [[Open source movement|open source]] and [[Hacker (programmer subculture)|hacking]] movements.<ref name="Ted" /> Mullen also spoke about resilience and creativity in a talk entitled "Getting Back Up" at the Pop!Tech "Sparks of Brilliance" event in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web|date=October 2013|title=Rodney Mullen: Getting back up|url=http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/rodney_mullen_getting_back_up|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027100113/http://poptech.org/popcasts/rodney_mullen_getting_back_up|archive-date=27 October 2013|access-date=25 October 2013|work=Pop!Tech|publisher=PopTech}}</ref>

In the first half of 2014, Mullen was invited by the [[O'Reilly Media]] technology company to present at its "Strata" and "Velocity" conferences, both of which were held in [[Santa Clara, California|Santa Clara]], California. Mullen's Strata presentation in February 2014 was titled "The Art of Good Practice" and consisted of an analysis of the nuanced way in which skateboarders practice their craft.<ref>{{cite web|date=25 June 2014|title=Rodney Mullen, "The Art of Good Practice" - Strata 2014|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vb9OonoP8|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716091734/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7vb9OonoP8&feature=youtu.be&list=PL055Epbe6d5aPTIYMGY7s28sBuJQFZjY_|archive-date=16 July 2014|access-date=13 July 2014|website=O'Reilly on YouTube|publisher=Google Inc|format=Video upload}}</ref>  Mullen then presented the "Build on a Bedrock of Failure" keynote in June 2014, in which he spoke of the way that "failure, pain, injury, recovery" are "embedded in the very notion of what it is to be a skateboarder".<ref>{{cite web|date=25 June 2014|title=Rodney Mullen: "Build on a Bedrock of Failure" Keynote - Velocity Santa Clara 2014|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiSiY9iWrMU|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716090631/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiSiY9iWrMU|archive-date=16 July 2014|access-date=13 July 2014|website=O'Reilly on YouTube|publisher=Google Inc|format=Video upload}}</ref>