can persuade you of that when it comes to our public life. Uh you know I don't need to tell you we we are meeting at an auspicious moment um which in my view is one of the scariest moments in memory if you think about what's happening in themarkets in the economy and one of the most hopeful if uh you are as excited as I am about what happened yesterday and
not a legal wife, but just a second kidnapped wife, and he's named for someone his father just killed. It was not an auspicious beginning, and in fact, just episode after episode in his childhood was inauspicious. The father and mother moved camp one time when he was quite young, and somehow they overlooked him, and forgot him.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. Every day was an auspicious day.
easy simple display of a flower that the more you walk around, the more calories you burn, the taller the flower grows. It's a very simple reward mechanism that is playful and I think those are really auspicious roots for helping people engage in that way, but we need more of it. I mean, there is a lot of cool stuff that could be done in that area.
You know what I mean? I felt a lot of auspicious energy around me. And our original wrap date was March 13, 2020.
to tap into these same ideas, it becomes a lot easier. There is far less friction involved, it's far more easy for anybody to get access to these tools and strategies. This to me is what makes it so auspicious , that we're at this moment in our healthcare system when we can start developing new tools and new strategies to work on these principles and start engaging people in their health. So one way that this looks, one way that this kind of comes to life, is all the tracking apps that are on the iPhone. So this is my
Well congratulations. Thank you. And your son's birthday is a pretty auspicious day as well, right? That's right. He was born the weekend of Mother's Day, which was May 10th of last year, but which
just to back up for a second when he invented this he was 29 years old he was living at home with his mother behind the Iron Curtain in communist Hungary which is perhaps the least auspicious place in history to develop a successful commercial product um and he didn't even know that he was inventing a puzzle I mean initially he created just a 2X two Rubik's Cube I
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. Everywhere we came it seemed like a very auspicious day.
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. Yeah, it was like auspicious day all the way.
So it's a great honor for us to have Dagmola here and give us a talk. In the Tibetan language, it means auspicious greetings. Good afternoon, everyone. Greetings from Seattle.
that we eat. Not that we don't have enough dumplings and noodles on a weekly basis. Lunar New year, really, I love doing all the auspicious foods with my kids, dumplings, meaning like a gold nugget. You're going to get rich if you eat more dumplings.
and she's ready to take on a new role, enter a new journey in her life, and make new relationships. And the song also touches upon all the Indian traditions, which are part of such auspicious occasions. So we wanted to end on a happy note, and here is "Gudiya."
So I met him, and I told him that we were planning to construct a hospice in a place in India where people especially go to die, because they consider it's auspicious for their next life. And a colleague of mine, who was a nurse, mentioned that we were going to try to give the patients the best of care physically,
Sorry if I'm embarrassing you, Dan. From that trip, I came back and wanted to share all these auspicious days in the Himalayas with my friends back in Berkeley.
in their care, when they are simply involved in the decision making, their averages, their outcomes on average tend to get much better. In fact, they tend to get about 20 to 25 percent better then people who aren't involved in the decision making. So it's also auspicious that I'm talking to you guys about this because this idea of feedback in groups as powerful members or powerful drivers of behavior change, can be pretty much easily translated into the terms data and social networks, right? They are almost analogous terms and the fact
And his word goes, he's the father in the absence of the father. Genghis Khan, it was a new title that he just thought up, or somebody thought up, or somebody thought it had auspicious meaning behind it,
I was born in 1974. And 1974, in addition to being the year that I was born, which is an auspicious enough occasion for us to care, is also more or less the time that the modern video game industry gets up and running.
I'll definitely sing that for you. Yeah? Okay, right now I'll just since it's such an auspicious beginning I'll just do a little prayer for you, okay? Ah...