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But sometimes it may be helpful to not think in transactional ways, to eliminate the transaction, to make it a little bit more invisible.
It's not just because people would know where the women's bathrooms are, even though that would be very helpful.
You see, if you understand the link between what we're doing to poison and pollute the planet and what we're doing to poor people, you arrive at a very troubling but also very helpful insight: In order to trash the planet, you have to trash people.
Einstein realized that if space were empty, if the universe were empty, it would be like this picture, except for maybe without the helpful grid drawn on it.
But if we were freely falling through the space, even without this helpful grid, we might be able to paint it ourselves, because we would notice that we traveled along straight lines, undeflected straight paths through the universe.
No, I'm not showing you any images, because black holes don't leave behind helpful trails of ink, and space is not painted, showing you the curves.
And I think the West, at least some powers in the West, particularly the United States, made the mistake of supporting those secular dictators, thinking that they were more helpful for their interests.
And so we found it was pretty helpful to have laundry machines, for our younger employees especially, and ... we also allow dogs and things like that, and we've had, I think, a really fun culture at our company, which helps people work and enjoy what they're doing.
And these platforms were certainly very helpful to activists in Tunisia and Egypt this past spring and beyond.
In my experience, in fact, the light footprint was extremely helpful.
Now, we had lots of neighbors in our Brooklyn neighborhood, and some of them were really very helpful for my parents.
They're going to be willing and helpful to getting you to the truth.
But although these hearing aids were the most powerful hearing aids on the market at the time, they weren't very helpful.
But I don't think this is a very helpful way of looking at it.
Now I realize for those of you who are colorblind, this slide is not very helpful, but stick with me nonetheless.
And it's true: left to its own devices, Mother Nature isn't going to carve an interesting or necessarily helpful path for you.
So I think it was helpful for me to be an engineer.
I think it was helpful to my role of running sales for Elon.
But it turns out, if you look into research on people's mindset, caring about outcomes, caring about public recognition, caring about these kinds of public tokens of recognition is not necessarily very helpful for your long-term psychological well-being.
And though not real, Eve Harrington, Howard Beale, Mildred Pierce are an opportunity to discover what it is to be human, and no less helpful to understanding our life and times as Shakespeare is in illuminating the world of Elizabethan England.
White had been enormously helpful to me, and the thought of his leaving shattered me.
So I established a helpful mantra for myself.
The same can be said for our social systems, for our systems of government, where, at the very least, flow offers us a helpful metaphor for understanding what the problem is, what's really broken, and the urgent need that we have, that we all feel today, to redesign the flow of our institutions.
And I also learned that it can be helpful to think about girls.
So office sound is a huge area, and incidentally, noise in offices has been shown to make people less helpful, less enjoy their teamwork, and less productive at work.
Avoiding overstatement is also very helpful because it reduces and in some cases even reverses some of the fears that people have about globalization.
Now to begin to overcome our ignorance of the role of brain chemistry in brain circuitry, it's helpful to work on what we biologists call "model organisms," animals like fruit flies and laboratory mice, in which we can apply powerful genetic techniques to molecularly identify and pinpoint specific classes of neurons, as you heard about in Allan Jones's talk this morning.
This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.
Electricity was also very helpful in liberating women.
And second, teachers in the program told us that these videos and these surveys from the students were very helpful diagnostic tools, because they pointed to specific places where they can improve.
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