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If we had just one week's worth of what we spend on the Iraq War, we could be well on the way to solving this challenge.
Kids spend hours each day engaging with ideas and each other through screens, but rarely do they have an opportunity to hone their interpersonal communications skills.
So I'd like to spend the next 10 minutes or so teaching you how to talk and how to listen.
But if you spend some time looking, you'll be able to find a sport that fits your individual needs, and if you do, there are so many benefits.
And the intuitive way to maximize it and avoid diminishing returns is to vary the way we spend our time and resources.
In the US, we spend 7 billion hours a year, wasted, sitting in traffic.
Studies have shown that many top athletes, musicians, and dancers spend 50-60 hours per week on activities related to their craft.
Placental mammals can spend far longer inside the womb than other mammals.
Baby blue whales, for instance, spend almost a full year inside their mother.
It will spend the next six months drinking 225 liters of its mothers thick, fatty milk per day.
Sloths have a multi-chambered stomach that takes up a third of their body, and depending on the species, they can spend five to seven days, or even weeks, processing a meal.
They spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping.
But neither Bhutan, nor the world can afford to spend 15 years going backwards.
Those convicted of murder were condemned to die in prison, and it was during those meetings with those men that I couldn't fathom why we would spend so much money to keep this one person in jail for the next 80 years when we could have reinvested it up front, and perhaps prevented the whole thing from happening in the first place.
I don't want to spend a lot of time talking about the problem.
We would spend our time that we'd normally take prepping our cases for months and months for trial down the road by coming up with real solutions to the problems as they presented.
Which is the better way to spend our time?
How would you prefer your prosecutors to spend theirs?
One of the first insights is that all the time you spend prioritizing your work is time you aren't spending doing it.
But then came my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you're supposed to spend a year on.
If you're a dog and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you're a huge success!
Now, the Panic Monster explains all kinds of pretty insane procrastinator behavior, like how someone like me could spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, and then miraculously find the unbelievable work ethic to stay up all night and write eight pages.
We have a long-term project called Toy Symphony, where we make all kinds of instruments that are also addictive, but for little kids, so the kids will fall in love with making music, want to spend their time doing it, and then will demand to know how it works, how to make more, how to create.
We spend most of our time breaking things and trying to prove that we're wrong.
Because X is structured with these tight feedback loops of making mistakes and learning and new designs, we can't spend 200 million dollars to get the first data point about whether we're on the right track or not.
Today, we spend most of our time tapping and looking at screens.
We're like the Peace Corps for nerds, but instead of traveling to crazy, interesting, far-off places, you spend a lot of time indoors, behind computers, helping restore the fabric of our democracy.
So, NASA, at some point, did an experiment where they took images of Mars that they were mapping, and they said, instead of having three or four fully trained Ph.D.s doing this all the time, let's break it up into small components, put it up on the Web, and see if people, using a very simple interface, will actually spend five minutes here, 10 minutes there, clicking.
This, on the other hand, is what 60,000 passionate volunteers produce in the Open Directory Project, each one willing to spend an hour or two on something they really care about, to say, this is good.
You have to hire them to spend a lot of time.
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