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Those of you who are comfortable with digital stuff and even smug about that relationship might be amused to know that the guy who is best known for "The Way Things Work," while preparing for part of a panel for called Understanding, spent two days trying to get his laptop to communicate with his new CD burner.

Not the least reason was the fact that I had spent those first four years living at home, driving into RISD everyday, driving back.

I spent the last few weeks gathering data about Rio, and one of the things that stood out to me about this city is that everything's really kind of mixed up.

In the two years I spent on the front lines of child welfare, I made high-stakes decisions.

My friend, Daniel Batson, spent a whole life putting people in the lab in very complex situations.

So I spent 120 hours in an MRI machine.

I've spent time with women in Afghanistan under the Taliban, who were essentially brutalized and censored.

You spent eight years on this one.

We spent 15 minutes opening the tap like this.

I spent months educating nurses and doctors about what female genital mutilation was and where it was practiced: Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and now, Australia and London and America, because, as we all know, we live in a multicultural society, and people who come from those backgrounds come with their culture, and sometimes they have cultural practices that we may not agree with, but they continue to practice them.

So ... A technology I spent the early part of my career on enables de-scattering.

I've spent a lot of time in one.

So we started having, in the cafeteria, a computer where you could go in and you could ask what someone spent, how much someone makes, what they make in benefits, what the company makes, what the margins are, and so forth.

I've spent 59 days on the back of a camel from Chad to Timbuktu.

Their small house in Aracataca where the author spent his childhood formed the main inspiration for Macondo.

Before I ever turned 18, I spent approximately 400 days on Rikers Island, and to add to that I spent almost 300 days in solitary confinement, and let me tell you this: Screaming at the top of your lungs all day on your cell door or screaming at the top of your lungs out the window, it gets tiring.

So I spent numerous amounts of time with numerous amounts of C.O.s, and let me tell you about this one in particular named Monroe.

So all my life I have wanted to find this stuff out, and spent the last four years tracking these old guys down.

So along with three co-conspirators, I spent nearly a decade observing up close and personal exceptional leaders of innovation.

In total, we spent hundreds of hours on the ground, on-site, watching these leaders in action.

I've spent about 15 years making them.

One of the things that really excites me in my artistic practice and being trained as a potter is that you very quickly learn how to make great things out of nothing; that I spent a lot of time at my wheel with mounds of clay trying stuff; and that the limitations of my capacity, my ability, was based on my hands and my imagination; that if I wanted to make a really nice bowl and I didn't know how to make a foot yet, I would have to learn how to make a foot; that that process of learning has been very, very helpful to my life.

There would be others who would argue that funds would be better spent on basic services for the disadvantaged.

I spent that night in a cold cement floor in the jail, and that got me thinking.

Fortunately, I was good enough that by the time I was 30, I was able to move into the upstairs world of money management, where I spent the next three decades as a global macro trader.

Kenong spent 10 years looking for this gene.

By the end of my sophomore year, I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years trying to understand what young people were facing as they came of age.

The first week I spent in this neighborhood, I saw two boys, five and seven years old, play this game of chase, where the older boy ran after the other boy.

You see, the more time I spent traveling to these exotic locations, the less gratifying it seemed to be.

And one of my favorite things about these places was simply the challenge and the creativity it took just to get there: hours, days, weeks spent on Google Earth trying to pinpoint any remote stretch of beach or reef we could actually get to.

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