because the companies don't want it. So, Substack, for instance, fairly closed ecosystem that you can share a Substack open to trying new apps. They're open to trying new search engines. They're open to trying new ways of finding each other
going through COVID, it was Black Lives Matter, it was a time when I thought America was open to a lot of new ideas and maybe we were you know, ready to face some truths that we hadn't faced before and sort ofrethink our national identity. So, it seemed like a really promising time for the story and now things took a turn after that,
humanity, um, one of the successionists I spoke to was saying that he's really open to AI just taking over because humanity sucks, right? He was saying to me like, "We have wars in 2026. Can youbelieve it? We still have wars. It's so stupid, right?" He's not totally wrong about that. We No, like we have we have a lot of things
And I remember we finished it. open to sharing with the room?
Do you have advice for people in the audience that may be wanting to do a more untraditional path as untraditional becomes more of the norm in today's world? Open to anyone. Jump in.Jump in. I feel like obviously our parents love us, so if they see that you're truly passionate about something, maybe in the beginning they'll be very shocked
She thumped the refill zone and put her cup under the nozzle. "Open to everyone, all day, every day. But Sundays are special, our way of saying hello to our new neighbors and getting to know them.
And so, I think, in the whole process, we were both trying to-- like Kecia was saying-- keep our hearts and our sense of truth open to really be able to represent and honor who these women were.And yet, also, as we were all talking about try to bring the truth of who we are to sort of merge.
I didn't design it. Open to everybody, I would think.
Aimee and I earlier spoke about self-empowerment versus being empowered by some other entity. Open to anyone's thoughts I think really, but just what is the role, and should be the role of men in this movement?And then I think that the next question is-- what should we as women be doing more to support each other in achieving the goals that we all
Now, what we were doing was looking for actual teams of architects--multidisciplinary teams--that could actually create a design that would make this amazing, but challenging environment open to the public.And so, I think this picture really tells the story of the challenge.
I've learned over the years is the most important thing a leader can do is learn to ask the right questions, be open to learning. There are times to give orders and advocate and say this is what we're going to do, but thestronger leaders know when to do that and also know when to ask questions. And so what I'm going to do here
thing. One thing, point I make in the book and this became very transparent because all the e-mails from the early days of Google Video and the early days of YouTube became open to the public when the Viacom filed suit there. So you compare the e-mails of Googlevideo to the e-mails of the very small YouTube team over the pizza shop. Right? And Google video -- there was a lot of energy being spent doing slide shows for the GPS and talking
representing the actions that have already occurred but in stories those actions are what they're open to in how it like maybe differs from other um interactions like a I don't know a business interaction or you
There's one basic question that animates all of my interviews, "What is a scientifically literate, rationally-minded person, someone who's impatient with religious doctrine, but open to spiritual experience, in other words, me; what is that person supposed to think about religion in the 21st Century?" So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna talk for about 40minutes or so, and I'm a radio guy so I'll play a bunch of short audio clips. They'll all go roughly between one and three minutes or so. These are from interviews I've done.
about the creative process if you're not getting along with with one guy you get off the bus before he sees that you're open to it we we not 9 to5 I wonder if my employers are going
open to interpretation when you can't hear a word or not sure I'm pretty good at it because I know the players and you
open to this thinking and making the world safe for politicians to lead in a different way is that we can do we can
or open to the possibility that what you're experiencing is not easily categorized, I think that's actually a really important part of brain health or existing in your body,
Be open to change, take on things before you're completely ready, and pay attention to the people around you In my case, that turned out to be the most valuable
remain open to men only. And a growing shortage of women health workers, a
--and open to it, it's been really more of-- like now my management,
Be open to hear the feedback that they give you, and consider how you can make positive change.
Be open to being called out.
Be open to being wrong.
Be open to putting your foot your mouth and making sure that you clearly communicate this is something that you're interested in, that you're engaged in,
Being open to opportunities?
are open to being persuaded.
We open to what's happening right now instead of pushing away from it into our brains, trying to think, how can we fix this or change this.
Hallie:-- Open to the next one.
mostly open I'm open to whatever it's going to be so you've just finished the book and we've been on a whirlwind tour
be open to Serendipity everyone says have a focus and Sally said too prepare a focus for where you're going
apparently open to well that word that he uses
And we should be open to surprise.
Everything is open to interpretation.
It's open to what I'm getting from it and what I'm missing from it.
And the museums are open to it.
And I'm open to the possibility that the answer is yes.
Like be open to the possibility of creating something you didn't plan to create and just go with it.
I'm open to that possibility.
said it uh was open to dialogue between the US and North Korea and they could also look
Of always being open to new evidence, but also recognizing when an idea is very good at explaining all of the weird phenomena of our world,
Literature remains open to readers’ interpretations.
but aren't open to quantum attacks.
And it's open to the public.
It's open to the world.
And so just be open to listen.
So you should be open to evidence that you did not expect and to learning just by looking at what's happening in the data.
Are we open to it?
You're open to -- I'm sure would welcome contributions from folks.
Would you be open to that?