actually played uh football at stanford university as a freshman in 1997 if i had a little more foresight i would have walked over the computer science department and asked around for a few phd students looking for answers about algorithms but instead of met larry and sergey as their employee
That's actually not the problem-solving algorithm at work. There's no foresight . Species don't decide a direction in which to evolve.
you're 16, you can actually write code and do this and it's like, "WOW! This is really cool!" So that gets a lot, a lot of, a lot of buy in. have any optimistic foresight on how that's gonna be addressed because there's such a strong movement towards basic skills and showing that we have competency on tests because schools
of dedication it takes um I think uh a lot of foresight is required so my advice would simply be as educated about the whole process and the whole period and the whole timeline as possible so
The influence of Henry James versus the influence of H.G. Wells. And then there is the discipline of Foresight Studies, which both Madeline Ashby and Karl Schroeder studied in graduate school.
--right after it. And is this, do you think-- So continuing with that question, did he just have the foresight that few other people did? And he saw this great opportunity, and he invested into it?
a lot of the football experts a lot of the traditionalists of the day who were very anti-passing had a very strong difference of opinion because fielding yost had the the foresight and the wisdom to turn friedman loose and the forward passing sensation was born much to the
during that period that the people who seem to be successful are the ones who still love what they're doing it's like anything else in that regard um but it takes this foresight because they have to make all these choices before they even begin the process
So all the times in the past I've had access to people, I could have asked them certain things and didn't. But you know, I didn't have that foresight . But this is very much a book of information.
A comment that's been attributed to him is he's sort of said your margin is my lunch. And from a spin on the outsider's perspective, how could they go on identifying these in foresight rather than hindsight?
tectonic changes. Yes. I mean, we all can think back to when MCI was on top of the world, and we all carried calling cards around. I wonder if you'd talk a little bit about how that landscape changed, and how you managed to have the foresight to stay out ahead of that.
was something that he wanted to do and he started off with a slightly different story but we worked together to actually bring it to what you see today. But really he, he needs to have credit to have the, to have the foresight and also the, the appetite and the gumption to actually take on something like this. And I'm very glad that he asked me to, to write it. I'll always be grateful to him for that.
And as Hal said, I thought that Bear Stearns was the most remarkable thing that would ever happen to a reporter my age who was covering the Federal Reserve. And so, it couldn't get any better than this, which as I said, tells you a lot about my foresight . And the reason Bear Stearns was interesting was, it was the first time since the Depression that the Fed had pulled the emergency cord, and said, "We're going to use our power given to us by Congress, to lend to almost anybody