Um, and that's very leverable, but it also means you have to nurture that because I think when you have a squandered . And so we think all the time about what we shouldn't do. And I actually think the most interesting business book that has never been
with a high school drama teacher who recognized potential in me and who absolutely demanded that I follow it, or that I not squander it. To the point where she took me by the hand to my own parents and said, I really think this person needs to keep doing this.
Today, because of Google, you have a whole generation that's wired their brain differently. Don't squander this opportunity. Help us lead the way into this new era.
And we said, ah, he's crazy now. He's kind of squandered his hard-earned athlete money because he's a triathlon world champion, six-time Ironman winner. Now he's going to squander that on a shoe.
But during that time, the reason I'm still here today and talking about making games and kept doing it afterwards is because while we were doing Ironclad Tactics, and perhaps squandering some of our future on that, we made an educational games for a company called Amplify, who is owned by News Corp., inexplicably. It spent like a zillion dollars building a tablet-based curriculum that literally caught on fire.
You've got to create the foundation, and then you have to take the steps to build each of the floors to get to that building. And we squandered it away.
swoop in there and say you know you need to turn down the volume on this you need to lean a little bit more on that the tension you've squandered this tension you know play it up if you've got someone really smart and sensitive you're in good shape if they make a convincing case for changing it and they know about it yeah I mean you know I agree with almost everything you know
consequential elections in Serbia uh in Georgia in kyrgistan uh in a number of aid gets squandered we give it to a country like Egypt as a kind of Lollipop you know here's money be our friend
Are we resigned to drowning in a sea of unverified claims where we can't really tell truth from fiction? And are we about to squander the opportunity for AI to revolutionize math? Well, the good news is no.
He's kind of squandered his hard-earned athlete money because he's a triathlon world champion, six-time Ironman winner. Now he's going to squander that on a shoe. And then we took it for a run.
And younger people benefit, too, because otherwise, each generation has to figure out on its own how dumb and destructive it is to fear growing older and how much of our youth we squander on worrying about it. And last but not least, join forces.
And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less, There's been a million stories of squandered aid money.
welcoming her now Irina rain thank you so much for coming for for squandering your lunch break in such a way by coming to hear me read and I want to first say thank you very much to Dan segment of course who is a fabulous writer in his
for us and fun work, but in the larger question, remember I said I wrote the book for the larger audience that needs to understand how impactful this transition towards a global network with squanderable abundance is going to be, is that the changes in this revolution will make it the largest technology revolution of all of our lifetimes, even for those of you who are among the -- on the younger end in this room as
whom fat and sweet wasn't that important and who took little pleasure in sexual propagate creations of the human mind the Arts storytelling squander brain
It's a lot of hard work. And I'll share with you briefly how we squandered that at Disney. We actually almost lost the entire company not once, but twice, in a 20-year period, despite the name recognition, the international brand,
Some would look at that in a sense as a squandered opportunity.
That's all great but these things too can be squandered and they can go away fairly quickly if we continue down a road that doesn't recognize that we should be essentially declaring
Our father's been entangled in things He's been squandering , he's been squandering And we don't do a thing, 'cause we're busy and think
And as broadband lines start to increase beyond the population in a region, that's what we call the anywhere tipping point. Because the pervasiveness of the cape -- of a capable network with squanderable abundance starts to allow innovation and adoption of entirely new behaviors and activities. Um, so this is unfolding before us.
And his supporters, not wanting to squander that crisis, believe that upon reading that law, that it actually
Because the whole point of this was that what a terrible travesty to squander a kid's-- for those precious,
world is it's beyond compare I hope you all do not squander
And suddenly it made no sense to me that adolescents should be squandered in that way, or neglected in that way.
years of highquality full day preschool three and foury olds and a lot of communities squandered it
what that company is doing is they're they're combining resources and squandering them. They're operating at a loss. The idea is to make a profit.
Youth of the United States believe our Birthright has been betrayed our inheritance has been squandered we will
Barack Obama and and I think there is a there there are a good deal of people who feel like that was squandered to a
They say, oh, we've been squandering this value, or we've been not taking advantage of this value.
I think the reason I took on "Hidden Potential" is I just have gotten sick of seeing potential squandered .
And I think that's why this matters, is that we are squandering the potential of 99% of our population.
I'm a big believer in abundance in the network. One of the people I interviewed for this book was Bob Metcalfe, who if you don't know him, is a seminal thinker and inventor and leader in the history of network technology and the phrase he uses -- which I have completely stolen -- is squanderable abundance of the network. And I think it's when the network is abundant to a degree that we can actually waste it, that's when we're struck
I'm in the position to tell everyone's stories, hopefully, and I don't want to squander that.
And we have to look, because as you said there is more than one way of using natural gas, and we have to sort of go into this analysis to make sure that we don't squander this gift,
I had these awesome opportunities to be able to go to school and whatnot, and I had squandered them.
But I also look back at my three year self, and I'm like, wow, what a squandered opportunity to do more.
back energy that's important in your life, it's not just refueling energy, it's not squandering energy on things that don't have any impact, that you can't have an impact on.
ubiquitous global network, it will be greater for individuals, ultimately, outside what we now think of as the developed regions. And the reason is that while they may not have in ten-years time, they may not have a network, a sense of abundance that's as squanderable as we will have. They may not have been fiber to the home, and they may not have 4G or 5G or 6G, they will have the first digital
without saying, gee, there are some substantial threats. I mean, that's my standard joke that, you know, as long as there's squanderable abundance in the network, someone will come up with
without saying, gee, there are some substantial threats. Comment? Yeah, just a question about when you talk about the squanderable resource, I'm reminded of a comment that the, you know, the high honcho