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And so with these social hubs, the paradox is, interestingly enough, to get randomness, it requires, actually, some planning.

At this ripe old age of 30, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to grow up in this horrible, beautiful time, and I've decided, for me, it's been a real journey and paradox.

The first paradox is that growing up is about rejecting the past and then promptly reclaiming it.

Which brings me to the second paradox: sobering up about our smallness and maintaining faith in our greatness all at once.

Which brings me to my third paradox.

It's about embracing the paradox.

But the paradox is, when a lot of these people slip into the policy-making mode, that social awareness vanishes and they start talking like accountants.

And I think there's almost a paradox with those.

And this is the dilemma, this is the paradox, of beauty.

I want to start though with a paradox.

But apparently, this is a strange paradox of life.

The paradox here is that the last decade probably was a lost decade for making progress on this.

But my point is, if liberal democracy is the end of history, then there's a massive paradox or contradiction here.

I think there's two ways to resolve this paradox.

I try hard not to waste energy feeling badly for myself, because when I do, I get stuck in a paradox, where there’s no room for any happiness or any other emotion.

I embody the central paradox.

But there's kind of a paradox here, because it looks like it's surrounded by desert.

Now social scientists call this the paradox of aging.

And if there's a paradox of aging, it's that recognizing that we won't live forever changes our perspective on life in positive ways.

And it's well-illustrated by a nifty paradox known as the Baker/baker paradox, which goes like this: If I tell two people to remember the same word, if I say to you, "Remember that there is a guy named Baker."

Things where you might trip across things like the Copernican principle, the Fermi paradox, the anthropic principle, the origin of life.

So you have this odd sort of paradox where I'm happy for him to go into this space if I know who everybody else is, but I don't want anybody else to know who he is.

So we have this paradox, which is that the number of annual executions has remained high but the number of new death sentences has gone down.

So, we are faced with a paradox.

The paradox of happiness is that even though the objective conditions of our lives have improved dramatically, we haven't actually gotten any happier.

This paradox is what got me interested in complex systems.

Whenever you make art with a computer program, you're always on the tree, and the paradox is that for excellent art, you want to be off the tree.

And two, actually this is a fascinating paradox for architecture, which is that, as a society, we've never needed design thinking more, and yet architecture was literally becoming unemployed.

And the paradox is that, because we have this blame game, we have less the potential to convince our citizens that we should work together, while now is the time when we really need to bring our powers together.

We are faced with a paradox.

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