It's incredible. But before- we get too far on that tangent you mentioned grad school. We should mention that you have a master's degree in creative writing from NYU, and you wanted to be a writer. You told me your main influences wereKerouac, but also Hemingway, Salinger, Bukowski, Orwell. What drew you to storytelling in that medium of writing? What aspect of the human
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characteristics of government marks, they're usually disappointed. Government marks look like government marks, but when they hear about their origin, they're like, "Oh, now that you mention it, that makes sense." The more quality you put into it, the more realistic it becomes. So, the more youlearn about the origin, the more you'll be like, "Ah, I see." There are other examples as well, like convenience stores,
'But not strong enough.'" There's a little sample of "Clariel." We'll go to questions in a moment, but shortly before I do that, I might just quickly mention something about the virtue of persistence.And I guess why I'm here today talking about my books.
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followed person on Google+ so please add him to your circles now Trey also wanted to make mention that for the googlers here in the room he is giving a free ebook giveaway um the website is on flatbookdcom where you at home can also visit and purchase ebooks and so the information for that distribution will
this is a little bit about how we do um the second tenant which is take action the last thing I wanted to really mention was that our approach is that we focus on the person not the cell people often say you do cancer research we dosome research but that research is really solely focused on what does it mean to live with cancer what are the unique needs and opportunities and the
know, the better you get at something quick. And so that's my book. That's and I guess I didn't mention , and I should mention the seven practices, right? Should I mention what those uh, yea. I mentioned that there's three generation, yea, oh yea, let mefinish this and then maybe we can talk. You know that there's, the book is divided into the three parts about: Part one being who we are. And I talked
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should be um so let me just talk to you a little bit about the format of the roots and about some of my favorites um i'll just mention a couple couple of things about the format uh first of all you'll notice that uh and i sort of went togreat length and extra cost to make these books spiral bound but with a spine and the reason i did that is
the prophet and his contemporaries that form the basis for much Islamic law mention dogs no fewer than 430 times a few references noted positivecharacteristics such as their loyalty and hurting abilities so so guard dogs and sheep dogs are condoned but most
Elegant organization. Uh this was a I get accused by one review of name-dropping too much. It's true. What I actually do is place-drop too much. I mention going to Davos too often.At Davos uh 2 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg was talking to the assembled media people.
mention a couple of them one is that Cara does come up um and say I'm going
mention a little blurb some little you know in this business you realize a lot of people will call under assuming
mention uh mention most of them and uh digress with a couple for one thing
mention examples like when
mention this topic uh because even though I know at Google you have a lot of women a lot of women in senior
mentioned , but the entire legacy that brought you that pride was not even mentioned either.
mentioned , you can start to get a glimmer of the kind of thing the intellectual life is.
Mentioned Harvard, how did that change your understanding of the world?
mentioning , you know, uh recursive self-improvement, AIs automating the whole research process, superintelligence.
mentioned the subject of AI. It just wasn't interesting to the world. And then this thing called ChatGPT came out, and suddenly everybody got to feel it
mentioned , you know, talking about how being wealthy can make you dissociate from the problems that ordinary people
mentioned maybe a pound, maybe a little bit more. That's like daily fluctuation in some cases, right? Like I mean I don't know about you, but like I I can
mentioned , girl dinner diaries, where people will post what they had for dinner along with the saddest, most
mentioned the uh the Chinese car market or at least the Chinese EV suppliers.
mentioned the influence of ultraorththodox parties or is there something else behind it?
mentioned from 1939 to 1957-- very key.
mentioned you have children.
mentioned , these rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease can go up.
mentioned in your presentation?
mentioned found the will to survive and found the will to go on and even had moments of humanity.
mentioned you can put your hand on your heart with nurturing you can send a loving message or just
mentioned some people in the um um in in in the in in the book. Raguram Rajan,
Mentioning things makes me think about the toys.
mentioned that have worked for people who maybe otherwise would not have had the opportunity?
mentioned the conversation with John Chambers two weeks ago so he said something really interesting haven't told you this Avinash
mentioned The Rosetta Project, so I just did just want to touch on it.
mentions diarrhea. And you might be surprised that millions of people tweet about their own diarrhea on Twitter every year.
mentioned sleep. And there's some really interesting findings that you start to get.
mentioned , these rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease can go up.
mentioned . And several thousand people have already taken this pledge to donate 10% to the most effective cause areas they can find.
mentioned , just in case.
mentioned moments when you encountered these roadblocks or these contradictions.
mentioned your time in uh I think 2001 as a cide analyst when Sir John was
mentioned well when he was working with Walter cronite on the first moonlanding he was you know the Hell 9000 computer
mentioned the idea of virtual reality and having people actually be able to go through filling their microplastics