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So that year really taught us the importance of being patient and really understanding the local market before you become so bold as to set lofty targets.

It's about each person coming to this platform, embracing it in their own way, and being significant in their own life.

As it turns out, there is a strong relationship between mind-wandering now and being unhappy a short time later, consistent with the idea that mind-wandering is causing people to be unhappy.

In contrast, there's no relationship between being unhappy now and mind-wandering a short time later.

Now, one of the non-perks of being a lexicographer is that people don't usually have a kind of warm, fuzzy, snuggly image of the dictionary.

Why are you blaming the ham for being too big for the pan?

Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction.

So if we're not worrying about directing traffic, if we've transcended paper, if we are worrying less about control and more about description, then we can think of the English language as being this beautiful mobile.

If we think of the dictionary as being the map of the English language, these bright spots are what we know about, and the dark spots are where we are in the dark.

But even if it were, rocket science is being done by dedicated amateurs these days.

They are far from being extinct.

So what's being done?

The shocking part about it is that to avoid being infected with trachoma, all you have to do is wash your face: no medicine, no pills, no injections.

And so these lies are being used by people to create a buffer, like the butler used to do, between us and the connections to everybody else.

These aren't just people being jerks.

We're going to be able to learn so much more about human thought and expression, about everything from love to attitudes, because everything is being recorded now, but what does it mean for the average citizen?

And they were less concerned about whether to lie or not to lie, and more concerned about being true to the self, and I think this is really important.

So being open for that experience that might change you is the first thing we need to embrace.

Richard Ford: I was slow to learn to read, went all the way through school not really reading more than the minimum, and still to this day can't read silently much faster than I can read aloud, but there were a lot of benefits to being dyslexic for me because when I finally did reconcile myself to how slow I was going to have to do it, then I think I came very slowly into an appreciation of all of those qualities of language and of sentences that are not just the cognitive aspects of language: the syncopations, the sounds of words, what words look like, where paragraphs break, where lines break.

Then, being her husband, I ran behind her and saw she had a nasty rag cloth.

And dictatorship now means that too much data is being concentrated in the hands of the government or of a small elite.

During elections and referendums, you're not being asked, "What do you think?" You're actually being asked, "How do you feel?"

If you are an engineer, then find ways to prevent too much data from being concentrated in too few hands.

So being a mechanical engineer, being at MIT and having lots of resources available to me, I thought I'd try to do something about it.

Now also being engineering scientists, we were able to quantify the performance benefits of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, so here are some shots of our trial in Guatemala where we tested the LFC on village terrain, and tested people's biomechanical outputs, their oxygen consumption, how fast they go, how much power they're putting out, both in their regular wheelchairs and using the LFC, and we found that the LFC is about 80 percent faster going on these terrains than a normal wheelchair.

We have never met a single human being in the world who can make it, sell it and look after the money.

The first way is that they're actually able to resolve small detail in the context of clutter, and though that means being able to read the fine print on a prescription rather than using magnifier glasses, you can actually do it with just your eyesight.

The other way that they are better is actually being able to resolve different levels of gray.

There was a first study done by colleagues at Stanford and that we replicated that showed that those people that identify as being high multimedia-taskers are absolutely abysmal at multitasking.

I had an awareness of being in my body, but also being out of my body, somewhere else, watching from above, as if it was happening to someone else.

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