Uh he's co-founder and president of Ithasa Research and Digital. Uh and he's been studying how technology has evolved in India. Uh and one of his books against all odds the IT story is a great recounting of how uh the beginning of the IT industry and its progress in India shaped a lot of what has happened here. uh many of us who are involved with different aspects of uh digital public infrastructure in India know what some of the personalities from that space have done uh and so it's been fascinating to see that and also his later book on empowering India. Uh today
And that one actually does have a Mars face on it. A recounting of how they were experiencing Mars time, but not in a tone that would demonstrate this was a grave concern.
For example, here's a little joke that was published in Harper's. "I was perambulating the piazza of the blank Hotel, in company with the daughter of the landlord. She had been recounting to me all her father's little successes and reverses in life ever since he had adopted the profession of a Boniface, and among the latter, that is, the reverses, the rather prominent and discouraging one of having his 'hostelrie' burned down without the mitigating circumstance of any insurance upon it.
He's like, what is a tweet? And we're literally recounting my tweet thread about the five-second rule. And if not for social media, we just wouldn't have been able to do that.
Yeah. And I had somehow managed to-- I mean, I was completely convinced that what had not happened, had happened. And you mention that in regards to recounting an interaction with the late Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Hitchens and I were having a debate in London with three religious types.
The three guys who do this go off-- well, Shockley anyway, goes off to start a company to build transistors. And I think it's worth recounting what happens because the focus that we got to early in this game was collaboration and what happens when you get groups of people all focused on trying to do something.
Plato's dialogue sometimes are written like real plays, with Socrates saying that-- you have the characters listed. But sometimes it's one person recounting the story. And here, it's Cheryl recounting the story.
around these different things. OK. So you're recounting a memoir of Christina during the 2017 California wildfire season where she's describing a conversation that she has with a family member where she's trying to convince him that it's a problem, to be more concerned about climate change.
to the children and women who were at the back side of the church by the altar, who were crying and screaming for God. He was hearing all of this and was recounting this to us. And I felt like I was causing him pain.
But sometimes it's one person recounting the story. And here, it's Cheryl recounting the story. OK. I'm just going to read a little bit.
And if you look at those and you build upon those, I feel like the negative will start going away because you find more and more opportunity in front of you. That's amazing. Yeah, thanks for recounting that. So many of our listeners are familiar to cycling in general, but maybe not familiar with the time trial discipline,
She was aging and becoming uninteresting. Her tales, when she told them, a monotonous meticulous recounting of the past day's events, of her endless cleaning, and her cooking, and her eating, and her breathing. One does not expect Luck to persist through all the thousands of days of a marriage, nor even true joy.
Gratitude in particular is a really great strategy to use at night. If you find yourself ruminating on negative thoughts and trying to fall asleep, just recounting maybe some people or some things that you're grateful for from the previous
Would that be the real world? Well, Cobb actually tells Ariadne, whenever he's recounting the events that preceded their meeting, that they entered Limbo after experimenting with--. Let me get the quote exactly right here.
face of tyrants. And while some argue that the President might be modeled on Guatemalan leader Manuel Estrada Cabrera — allegedly! allegedly! — other scholars say the decision to write about an unnamed dictator in an unnamed country tells us something else: That the novel is less interested in recounting the story of one historical figure, and more interested in exploring the effects that a dictatorship has on a society.
It could send the imagination into overdrive. Robert Burton in "The Anatomy of Melancholy" talked about that in 1621, "When I like waking all alone recounting what I have ill done," so the sense that when we were alone we can ruminate.
And as I stood there and read her book, in the library again, I was impressed by the medicine that she was recounting .
Well, thank you, Joe and Joyce, for recounting those stories.
Q -- and yours is different. And one of the ways that it was really different for me was, it affected me emotionally much more than a recounting by Jim Wickwire or
So, just to go into that, into a little more detail, I had learned about the trauma narrative from Shakespeare; that was the first thing. He had one reason for recounting a traumatic