kind of peak absurdity where again British West African kids are doing comparatively well in school. And still there is this general narrative that black kids undifferentiated by class, undifferentiated by current or background, undifferentiated by whether or not their Children are there, where their parents are West African university educated civil servants orBritish Jamaican bricklayers. My body just black kids in trouble, even in a country where the majority of poor people are white, even a country where the vast
like a circle. He uses his idea of the eternal recurrence ask us to imagine that our entire life would recur over and over, and over again in an endless loop of kind of this, you know, undifferentiated sameness. So, he ask us to like actually think about this for a second, "What would you think like what would you do, what would you response to this sort ofsituation?" It's not like this is supposed to be something that could or would happen, but he wants to do like, think in terms of like, you know, how you view your life? Like,
So what we're going to do with this vivid thinking and the napkins and pens that I handed out to you, is I 'd like to show you a tool, a visual, verbal tool, that will help us take any idea from its undifferentiated , kind of ugly, nasty starting point to becoming something that is so crystalline and so beautiful that nobody ever wants to forget it.
And, I differentiate between three different sorts of Taliban. The Taliban are not an undifferentiated mass where it's a tightly controlled group. They're no longer in control of the government. Some are what I call the ten dollar Taliban.
Well, the ones that have come in a recent period. But making that movie made it clear to me that life is undifferentiated experience.
So the reproductive tract initially is not different in genetic males and females. It's a single ridge, actually, undifferentiated ridge. And then, at some point, probably week seven or eight of pregnancy, the testes--
And these are tried and tested narratives. What are zombies? They are mindless, undifferentiated , lumpen proletarian mass completely without any kind of control
And then they looked at their brains afterwards. And the monkeys on the low omega-3 diet had very simple, undifferentiated brains. But the monkeys on the high omega-3 diet had very complex, richly differentiated brains, almost like human beings.
there but there's one piece that's missing which is the person that we have to show it to. and said, "Wait a minute. This is an undifferentiated commodity, it doesn't target to anyone. It's just one size fits all. What would happen if we went out and realized that there are
The dates fall away from the days like glass punched out of window frames, or ice cubes out of a tray into a sink. Identical, dateless, nameless durational blobs melting into an undifferentiated puddle. Is that a Saturday, a Friday, a Monday?
So all of us, I mean my gosh in particular all of you who work at Google, what are we really in? What business are we really, really in? We're in the business of ideas. And the trouble with most ideas is that they start out kind of like this, this is like a pile of coal; they're ugly, they're undifferentiated , they're poorly defined, but like a pile of coal they have incredible potential.
have to remember anything; it's able to follow along, it's able to see what the words mean at the same time. So now let's say we've got this idea. To just explain our idea all at once is gonna be a bit like that pile of coal, it's gonna be largely undifferentiated . So what we're going to do is we're gonna break our idea down into six different slices. Just like take that idea as if it was a pizza; we're not gonna force someone to eat the pizza all at once