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Then you have children for whom English is a second language, or whatever they're being taught in is a second language.

It's about designing, not appearance, but experience, so that we have spaces that sound as good as they look, that are fit for purpose, that improve our quality of life, our health and well being, our social behavior and our productivity.

I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

That became, as it were, a way of confronting large businesses in the business of wasting food, and exposing, most importantly, to the public, that when we're talking about food being thrown away, we're not talking about rotten stuff, we're not talking about stuff that's beyond the pale.

We're talking about good, fresh food that is being wasted on a colossal scale.

Unfortunately, empirical data, good, hard stats, don't exist, and therefore to prove my point, I first of all had to find some proxy way of uncovering how much food was being wasted.

So I took the food supply of every single country and I compared it to what was actually likely to be being consumed in each country.

Parsnips that are too small for supermarket specifications, tomatoes in Tenerife, oranges in Florida, bananas in Ecuador, where I visited last year, all being discarded.

All being discarded, perfectly edible, because they're the wrong shape or size.

And one of the side effects of having major massive blood loss is you get tunnel vision, so I remember being on the stretcher and having a little nickel-sized cone of vision, and I was moving my head around and we got to St. Vincent's, and we're racing down this hallway, and I see the lights going, and it's a peculiar effect of memories like that.

And I said, "Is there anything I can do to help?" and — (Laughter) — the nurse kind of had a hysterical laugh, and I'm turning my head trying to see everybody, and I had this weird memory of being in college and raising, raising money for the flood victims of Bangladesh, and then I look over and my anesthesiologist is clamping the mask on me, and I think, "He looks Bangladeshi," — (Laughter) — and I just have those two facts, and I just think, "This could work somehow."

So if someone is being really powerful with us, we tend to make ourselves smaller.

Where are you being evaluated, either by your friends?

They are being recorded.

They're being judged also, and the judges are trained to give no nonverbal feedback, so they look like this.

So for five minutes, nothing, and this is worse than being heckled.

And that really resonated with me, because I want to tell you a little story about being an impostor and feeling like I'm not supposed to be here.

I knew my IQ because I had identified with being smart, and I had been called gifted as a child.

So I really struggled with this, and I have to say, having your identity taken from you, your core identity, and for me it was being smart, having that taken from you, there's nothing that leaves you feeling more powerless than that.

I was so afraid of being found out the next day that I called her and said, "I'm quitting."

And, being a little intrigued, I went to go meet this group, and what I found was 20 unwed mothers who were trying to survive.

It became a question my entire life, and that's all right, because being good at math meant he bought me a computer, and some of you remember this computer, this was my first computer.

By being President of RISD I've gone deep into art, and art is a wonderful thing, fine art, pure art.

"Oh, it's really old." (Laughter) And he saw, over and over, the antique's value was all about it being old.

And it felt kind of like being president, actually.

The places being rented out are things that you might expect, like spare rooms and holiday homes, but part of the magic is the unique places that you can now access: treehouses, teepees, airplane hangars, igloos.

They're just being reinvented in ways that are relevant for the Facebook age.

Now the tasks being posted are things that you might expect, like help with household chores or doing some supermarket runs.

Now, capturing and correlating the trails of information that we leave in different places is a massive challenge, but one we're being asked to figure out.

We all start out joyful, but as we get older, being colorful or exuberant opens us up to judgment.

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