Doing
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It might be giving a pitch or giving a talk like this or
doing
a job interview.
You're looking at your notes, you're hunching up, making yourself small, when really what you should be
doing
maybe is this, like, in the bathroom, right?
You're just going to do it and do it and do it, even if you're terrified and just paralyzed and having an out-of-body experience, until you have this moment where you say, 'Oh my gosh, I'm
doing
it.
I am actually
doing
this.'"
Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation, for two minutes, try
doing
this, in the elevator, in a bathroom stall, at your desk behind closed doors.
And while we were
doing
it, I realized that there weren't a lot of businesses that were viable and started by women, and so maybe I should try to run a business, too.
And so, I lived in Kigali for about two and a half years,
doing
these two things, and it was an extraordinary time in my life.
We've invested about 20 million dollars in 20 different enterprises, and have, in so doing, created nearly 20,000 jobs, and delivered tens of millions of services to people who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
And NAND2Tetris became one of the first massive, open, online courses, although seven years ago we had no idea that what we were
doing
is called MOOCs.
But given what I now feel capable of doing, I would certainly do it again.
They are
doing
it because of one motivation only.
So with that, I'd like to say a few words about upgrading, and share with you a glimpse from my current project, which is different from the previous one, but it shares exactly the same characteristics of self-learning, learning by doing, self-exploration and community-building, and this project deals with K-12 math education, beginning with early age math, and we do it on tablets because we believe that math, like anything else, should be taught hands on.
So presently, we are
doing
the following: First of all, we are decomposing the K-12 math curriculum into numerous such apps.
Well, I remember in third grade, I had this moment where my father, who never takes off from work, he's a classical blue collar, a working-class immigrant person, going to school to see his son, how he's doing, and the teacher said to him, he said, "You know, John is good at math and art."
And then I spent a lot of time in the space of interactive graphics and things like this, and I stopped
doing
it because my students at MIT got so much better than myself, so I had to hang up my mouse.
But I would listen to people, hear their issues, draw in the sand, try to figure things out, and it was kind of hard to figure out what I was
doing.
And by the end of the experience, I realized why I was
doing
this.
And one thing I've been
doing
is
doing
some research on systems that can combine technology and leadership with an art and design perspective.
For instance, green are areas
doing
well, red are areas
doing
poorly.
Now the way TaskRabbit works is, people outsource the tasks that they want doing, name the price they're willing to pay, and then vetted Rabbits bid to run the errand.
Now the tasks being posted are things that you might expect, like help with household chores or
doing
some supermarket runs.
But I love that the number one task posted, over a hundred times a day, is something that many of us have felt the pain of doing: yes, assembling Ikea furniture.
How do we stop people who've behaved badly in one community
doing
so under a different guise?
He's turning 50 this year, and he's convinced that the rich tapestry of reputation he's built on Airbnb will lead him to
doing
something interesting with the rest of his life.
So I started finding people who were
doing
just that.
And so maybe instead of chasing after happiness, what we should be
doing
is embracing joy and finding ways to put ourselves in the path of it more often.
In fact, I know this is his sister, and you can just see him saying, "Okay, we're
doing
this for the camera, and then afterwards you steal my candy and you punch me in the face."
In
doing
this, what we've discovered is that humans are literal canaries in social exchanges.
As it turns out, when tens of millions of people are unemployed or underemployed, there's a fair amount of interest in what technology might be
doing
to the labor force.
What they're not really
doing
is hiring.
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