[Music]
so if the last hundred years of
technological progress is any indication
as to where we’re going next then we
have reasons to be excited just look at
this little computer that we all carry
around everywhere
you know that the iPhone is a hundred
million times faster than the most
powerful computers used during the
Apollo moon mission think about that
theoretically your iPhone could guide
over a hundred million Apollo Air era
spacecraft to the moon all at the same
time now I don’t think there’s quite
just an app that exists where you can do
that but we are using this immense
computing power every single day in ways
that were deemed impossible and they’re
not so distant past ok so wait you know
the rate of technological progress has
been staggeringly exponential the human
mind has struggled to keep up and this
is ironic because the human mind itself
is the source of this innovation but you
know what
perhaps the deeper and sadder irony is
that despite all of this material
progress human beings are still
grappling with issues that have plagued
us for thousands of years issues of
identity issues of connection of
belonging of meaningful interactions and
you know we can’t ignore this anymore
because all this neglect of the inner
world the world of emotions and
meaningful human connection has
manifested right we’re living in a
global mental health crisis right now
there’s many reports that suggest that
the rates of depression anxiety
loneliness are all at record levels and
even beyond the macro level trends
there’s this creeping sense that
something is
in the way that we interact with our
everyday consumer technology right
whether it’s declining attention spans
low levels of presence or energy or our
friendly social media behaviors where
we’re just doing anything for the next
like share or comment this is such a
disconnect between the way that we
behave and interact online versus how
we’re behaving in the physical world
right if B if the ideals of the internet
and handheld devices was was – the idea
was and the vision was to unite us and
bring us together then why is there so
much hate online why is there so much
negativity and aggression why are we
still lonely right we each have hundreds
if not thousands of social media friends
and followers who we can technically
connect with but through just a click of
a button and yet we still feel lonely
and alone and I think ultimately it
boils down to that issue of connection
there are millions of ways to connect
with people all around the world now but
do we feel more connected to them or
even to ourselves for that matter now
the general consensus is no no we don’t
there there’s more information than ever
before but a lot of this has come at the
cost of personal meaning um so where do
we go from here
you know what’s really really reassuring
is that the world is waking up to this
reality waking up to the fact that we
have Nick neglected our inner worlds and
we need to meet the needs of our inner
worlds which is why that a lot of
ancient practices whether it’s yoga
meditation or mindfulness or all gaining
traction there’s a very promising
conversation and inquiry and inquiry
into mental health that’s happening all
around the world I don’t know if you
guys saw just a few days ago the world’s
first Minister for loneliness was
appointed in the UK and this was
inspired and this move was inspired by a
20-17 health report that suggested that
loneliness is as harmful for health as
smoking 15 cigarettes a day so
this is all promising this is definitely
a step in the right direction but we
need to do a lot more because the
problem is more complex than ever before
and that’s in part to the sophistication
of our consumer technology we are living
in multiple worlds now we have so many
different online profiles and identities
in some ways we are all just brands
constantly curating ourselves you know
or this external approval and the next
dopamine hit and it’s become numbing and
exhausting think about it when was the
last time you went on a social media
sites such as Facebook or Instagram and
felt a sense of happiness or joy or
peace this is a problem and it’s not
that one product or one company is to
blame it’s that the point is that our
entire process and approach is
completely broken
we need more humanity and human values
and ethics in the way that we are going
about innovation we need to start
focusing on the things that actually
matter our interior lives our sense of
purpose our belonging our well-being the
connection the connections that we hope
and we can’t afford to ignore these
things anymore so obviously you know you
know I’m not standing here and saying
that I have the solution to all these
problems the point is that one person
cannot have all that all the answers but
I want to humbly present a framework
today a framework a mental model that
involves creativity and collaboration to
in order to bring more meaning to human
interaction so this is a TEDx audience
so you guys are very familiar with the
terms creativity and collaboration so
there’s a lot of sort of you know most
of the world for that matter and what’s
funny is that it’s only because human
ability of our human ability to be
creative and collaborate that’s helped
us evolve beyond all other species right
if there’s this amazing book that I’m
reading right now I’m a little late to
the party I mean I think
reading a couple years ago but it’s
called sapiens by you van Noah Harare
and he talks a lot about this one really
memorable analogy he shares is that you
know human beings we are a lot weaker
and physically less able than lions and
tigers and yet we have somehow risen to
the top of the food chain not them and
this happened because we were just a lot
more coordinated right we could work
together and build solutions and weapons
to help protect ourselves we organized
movements we build cities we play
politics we invented the crazy of
Technology we made currencies now all
these innovations was very interesting
and he talks about this that all these
innovations are not biological truths or
they weren’t naturally occurring in the
environment they all started out as
human ideas stories fictions pigments of
the human imagination that ultimately
materialized God gained a lot of
traction and then became part of our
everyday realities and what’s really
really important to note here is that
the only reason they materialized and we
were able to build structures around
them was because we collaborated it was
our collaboration that summoned these
great ideas that took our lives the next
level and and it was only because of
collaboration that we summoned them into
existence so collaborative creativity it
helps explain a lot of how we got to
where we are and what makes humans human
and these ideas have also really guided
and inspired me as an entrepreneur in my
latest venture called haiku jam and the
idea for haiku jamming it started a
couple of years ago when I was in at
London tea shop
feeling very sad I was feeling down
another startup had not quite worked out
and I was feeling depressed I just
didn’t know what to do with myself so my
best friend he decided to treat me to a
cup of tea so we went and this little
place in Piccadilly that I really loved
and ordered this cup of tea called
lapsang souchong the
deliciously smoky Chinese tea I really
recommend you try it though you probably
won’t get it in Fulani you may have to
go to Delhi for him so there we were
waiting for this tea to arrive and just
on a whim I took out my journal a
notebook and I wrote the first line of a
haiku poem now haiku isn’t is a form of
minimalistic three line poetry that
comes from ancient Japan and I wrote the
first line and I still don’t know why I
did this but I push the notebook towards
my best friendship um and I asked him to
write the next line so he did and then I
wrote the final line and for the next
two hours that’s all we would all we
were doing in complete silence which may
be from you know an external observers
perspective look quite odd but it was
incredible for me it was incredibly
therapeutic it was cathartic I just
wanted to get out of my own head I
wasn’t satiated enough by my own
thoughts and it was so inspiring to see
how the thought my incomplete thought
evolved in a way that I would never have
dreamt and by the end of that session
had this immense urge to connect with
people around the world through
creativity what if I could send out a
line and a school teacher in South Korea
could write the next and then a student
or an artist in San Francisco what if I
could say the things I would never have
said with the people I would never have
met
now this urge it led to haiku Jam which
is a platform where strangers all around
the world write poems together and we’ve
come a long way since that afternoon in
the tea shop drinking lapsang souchong
with Shubham if the haiku Jam
communities now spans across 120
countries a line is published every
single second in our app and over 4
million jams have been published today
well what is infinitely more exciting
than the the product the technology it’s
the haiku gem community it’s always
inspires me to see how so many people
from all walks of life are connecting
and expressing themselves and forming
the most unexpected of bonds and
relationships you know yesterday I was I
was I came from Bombay and I flew into
Delhi and when I whatever I arrived in
Delhi now I really smile and feel very
good and it’s not because we have
thousands and thousands of jammers there
I mean that’s great of course but I
remember this very specific group of
people that met in haiku Jam they were
you know the earliest members of our
community and what’s very very
interesting about these people is how
different they look you know there’s
about ten of them there ten friends and
the youngest is I think 16 or 17 and
she’s in high school and the oldest is a
mother of two and she’s a housewife
and when you when you watch them
interact you feel as though they these
guys must have known each other you know
their entire lives maybe they’re even
family it looks like they’re on a family
outing a family vacation and it inspires
me to know that these guys met in haiku
Jam through a line of poetry and they’re
not just friends they’re not just
clothes they’re like kindred spirits you
know there are more than family and I
guess that really whenever I go through
Delhi it reminds me of why we’re doing
what we are doing it’s incredible just
how the you Forge that’s unexpected I
wouldn’t even say connections these are
bonds is a much much deeper than static
you know connections and I was also very
excited to come to bits pilani not
because you guys are awesome and great
that is true but because when we
launched haiku Jam we were in London and
we were planning to be in London or in
San Francisco and then we had this
little organic spike of traction in
India and at the time we didn’t think
much of it we thought okay some you know
some people have discovered it on the
App Store and they’re enjoying
themselves great three four months later
we couldn’t ignore that little spike
because it wasn’t a little spike most of
you know jammers were coming out of
India and we’re receiving so many email
so many tweets so many poems inside of
the app they were inviting us to come
and you know get to know them better and
we thought that maybe these guys were
poets right maybe there were writers
maybe they were you know publishers who
were thinking about digital and that
wasn’t the case they were actually
engineering students that college is
just like this one
and this really threw us off God you
know we just thought what is happening
why these guys like reading poster but
again it’s wonderful that they are
that’s really good for the platform but
why is this happening why is haiku time
culturally resonated so rather than look
at a dashboard of metrics and try and
understand you know we we got out into
the real world we came to Delhi we took
a flight and me we went to campuses and
we interacted and we try you know we we
had some really wonderful conversations
and again we were so inspired by these
we were hearing so many stories from
people who were saying that look I’m in
engineering school now but as a kid I
used to write I used to make music I
wanted to be an actor but then I had to
get into bits pilani and I had to devote
the next four years to that so there was
no more time to be really creative there
was no more time for hobbies as such and
with haiku jam all I have to do is send
out a line a couple of lines a day and
the world will jam with me it’s R it’s a
wonderful way to in stay in touch with
your creativity
um and you’d have to invest a lot of
time right and the return on your
investment of time is when people
interact with you and take your
expression in a completely new found
direction and you know and then what’s
again what’s what’s fascinated this is
that you’re not just being creative
often when you think of the lone artist
or creative person you maybe you you
know you may think of a writer in front
of the laptop right in that basement or
in the bedroom or an artist with an
easel you don’t really think of a
collective you don’t think of a lot of
people at the same time being creative
together but that’s what haiku Jam is
ultimately you’re being creative and
you’re discovering new people and new
ideas in the process so the community is
wonderful there are an incredible
stories and there’s just a lot a lot of
love and emotion right within the
platform and the interactions and more
recently as a team we wanted to
understand these interactions better we
wanted to understand what are the
underlying words what are the underlying
emotions behind those words haiku Jam is
a place where you know you’re never
alone your voice matters and you can
belong and under
lying all of that there’s this among
these fascinating emotional threats so a
few weeks ago we ran a series of
sentiment analysis experience
experiments using natural language
processing essentially we wanted to
understand how our people house the
Haiku gem community feeling about 2017
year just gone and how they feeling
about 2018 the year that lies ahead and
after some mining we found out two very
interesting things the first was that
people were a lot more positive about
2017 then we had expected right
especially when you consider the
underlying negative news events that
took place for me everything in the new
cycle was was pretty gloomy and dreary
and yet people were still positive
which was inspiring for us and the
second which the second thing that we we
learned which was a lot a lot more
exciting was the fact that jamming
specifically specifically collaboration
seemed to be lifting the mood of the
individual interactions we learned that
the ratio of positive to negative
sentiment across jams across the three
line poems was 20% higher than the same
ratio across individual lines right so
this would suggest that by working
together by creating to get by
collaborating in a creative context this
is bringing out the best that we have to
offer and literally lifting our inner
wonderful right it’s really great to
interact with people in such a way you
you know you leave feeling with a sense
of productivity of inspiration and you
discover all sorts of incredible people
in the process but the what I’d love for
you to take away today a core message I
wanted to tell you I’d love for you to
take away today is this that ultimately
we need more humanity more story and
more human
use in the technology that we’re
building we don’t need more algorithms
that are fighting for our engagement
just to sell us more advertising right
we need algorithms that are actually
fighting or our happiness we can’t lose
sight of our inner worlds you know
there’s been I think that if we ever
crack you know crack the problem of
sending rockets to the moon and to Mars
from our phones that’s great and that’s
incredible but I think we have some
bigger problems to solve before them we
need to start building models and
processes we’re into innovation where
human values where ethics and a sense of
humanity that’s a priority and this
isn’t just naive idealism ultimately
this is good for the this is make
business sense in the long run because
when you suddenly make you know human
connection and meaning a mandate it
means that new business models will
emerge we won’t you know protect
companies will no longer have to drug
people into just getting their
engagement than selling them ads people
will happily pay for experiences that
enrich their inner worlds that bring
more meaning to their lives and look
ultimately we’re not here for very long
right life is a journey from the first
breath that you take in when you’re born
little the last breath that you excel
whether it’s 60 years 70 years 80 years
90 years that’s it and we don’t control
a lot
there’s just most things in the universe
that we have very very little control
over the only thing that we have a lot
of agency over is how we use our time
how we think and how we use our hearts
so let’s not fritter away the time doing
things that just don’t matter or
pursuing power or money rather than that
let’s dive deep let’s be present and
let’s build for meaning thank you very much
so if the last hundred years of
technological progress is any indication
as to where we’re going next then we
have reasons to be excited just look at
this little computer that we all carry
around everywhere
you know that the iPhone is a hundred
million times faster than the most
powerful computers used during the
Apollo moon mission think about that
theoretically your iPhone could guide
over a hundred million Apollo Air era
spacecraft to the moon all at the same
time now I don’t think there’s quite
just an app that exists where you can do
that but we are using this immense
computing power every single day in ways
that were deemed impossible and they’re
not so distant past ok so wait you know
the rate of technological progress has
been staggeringly exponential the human
mind has struggled to keep up and this
is ironic because the human mind itself
is the source of this innovation but you
know what
perhaps the deeper and sadder irony is
that despite all of this material
progress human beings are still
grappling with issues that have plagued
us for thousands of years issues of
identity issues of connection of
belonging of meaningful interactions and
you know we can’t ignore this anymore
because all this neglect of the inner
world the world of emotions and
meaningful human connection has
manifested right we’re living in a
global mental health crisis right now
there’s many reports that suggest that
the rates of depression anxiety
loneliness are all at record levels and
even beyond the macro level trends
there’s this creeping sense that
something is
in the way that we interact with our
everyday consumer technology right
whether it’s declining attention spans
low levels of presence or energy or our
friendly social media behaviors where
we’re just doing anything for the next
like share or comment this is such a
disconnect between the way that we
behave and interact online versus how
we’re behaving in the physical world
right if B if the ideals of the internet
and handheld devices was was – the idea
was and the vision was to unite us and
bring us together then why is there so
much hate online why is there so much
negativity and aggression why are we
still lonely right we each have hundreds
if not thousands of social media friends
and followers who we can technically
connect with but through just a click of
a button and yet we still feel lonely
and alone and I think ultimately it
boils down to that issue of connection
there are millions of ways to connect
with people all around the world now but
do we feel more connected to them or
even to ourselves for that matter now
the general consensus is no no we don’t
there there’s more information than ever
before but a lot of this has come at the
cost of personal meaning um so where do
we go from here
you know what’s really really reassuring
is that the world is waking up to this
reality waking up to the fact that we
have Nick neglected our inner worlds and
we need to meet the needs of our inner
worlds which is why that a lot of
ancient practices whether it’s yoga
meditation or mindfulness or all gaining
traction there’s a very promising
conversation and inquiry and inquiry
into mental health that’s happening all
around the world I don’t know if you
guys saw just a few days ago the world’s
first Minister for loneliness was
appointed in the UK and this was
inspired and this move was inspired by a
20-17 health report that suggested that
loneliness is as harmful for health as
smoking 15 cigarettes a day so
this is all promising this is definitely
a step in the right direction but we
need to do a lot more because the
problem is more complex than ever before
and that’s in part to the sophistication
of our consumer technology we are living
in multiple worlds now we have so many
different online profiles and identities
in some ways we are all just brands
constantly curating ourselves you know
or this external approval and the next
dopamine hit and it’s become numbing and
exhausting think about it when was the
last time you went on a social media
sites such as Facebook or Instagram and
felt a sense of happiness or joy or
peace this is a problem and it’s not
that one product or one company is to
blame it’s that the point is that our
entire process and approach is
completely broken
we need more humanity and human values
and ethics in the way that we are going
about innovation we need to start
focusing on the things that actually
matter our interior lives our sense of
purpose our belonging our well-being the
connection the connections that we hope
and we can’t afford to ignore these
things anymore so obviously you know you
know I’m not standing here and saying
that I have the solution to all these
problems the point is that one person
cannot have all that all the answers but
I want to humbly present a framework
today a framework a mental model that
involves creativity and collaboration to
in order to bring more meaning to human
interaction so this is a TEDx audience
so you guys are very familiar with the
terms creativity and collaboration so
there’s a lot of sort of you know most
of the world for that matter and what’s
funny is that it’s only because human
ability of our human ability to be
creative and collaborate that’s helped
us evolve beyond all other species right
if there’s this amazing book that I’m
reading right now I’m a little late to
the party I mean I think
reading a couple years ago but it’s
called sapiens by you van Noah Harare
and he talks a lot about this one really
memorable analogy he shares is that you
know human beings we are a lot weaker
and physically less able than lions and
tigers and yet we have somehow risen to
the top of the food chain not them and
this happened because we were just a lot
more coordinated right we could work
together and build solutions and weapons
to help protect ourselves we organized
movements we build cities we play
politics we invented the crazy of
Technology we made currencies now all
these innovations was very interesting
and he talks about this that all these
innovations are not biological truths or
they weren’t naturally occurring in the
environment they all started out as
human ideas stories fictions pigments of
the human imagination that ultimately
materialized God gained a lot of
traction and then became part of our
everyday realities and what’s really
really important to note here is that
the only reason they materialized and we
were able to build structures around
them was because we collaborated it was
our collaboration that summoned these
great ideas that took our lives the next
level and and it was only because of
collaboration that we summoned them into
existence so collaborative creativity it
helps explain a lot of how we got to
where we are and what makes humans human
and these ideas have also really guided
and inspired me as an entrepreneur in my
latest venture called haiku jam and the
idea for haiku jamming it started a
couple of years ago when I was in at
London tea shop
feeling very sad I was feeling down
another startup had not quite worked out
and I was feeling depressed I just
didn’t know what to do with myself so my
best friend he decided to treat me to a
cup of tea so we went and this little
place in Piccadilly that I really loved
and ordered this cup of tea called
lapsang souchong the
deliciously smoky Chinese tea I really
recommend you try it though you probably
won’t get it in Fulani you may have to
go to Delhi for him so there we were
waiting for this tea to arrive and just
on a whim I took out my journal a
notebook and I wrote the first line of a
haiku poem now haiku isn’t is a form of
minimalistic three line poetry that
comes from ancient Japan and I wrote the
first line and I still don’t know why I
did this but I push the notebook towards
my best friendship um and I asked him to
write the next line so he did and then I
wrote the final line and for the next
two hours that’s all we would all we
were doing in complete silence which may
be from you know an external observers
perspective look quite odd but it was
incredible for me it was incredibly
therapeutic it was cathartic I just
wanted to get out of my own head I
wasn’t satiated enough by my own
thoughts and it was so inspiring to see
how the thought my incomplete thought
evolved in a way that I would never have
dreamt and by the end of that session
had this immense urge to connect with
people around the world through
creativity what if I could send out a
line and a school teacher in South Korea
could write the next and then a student
or an artist in San Francisco what if I
could say the things I would never have
said with the people I would never have
met
now this urge it led to haiku Jam which
is a platform where strangers all around
the world write poems together and we’ve
come a long way since that afternoon in
the tea shop drinking lapsang souchong
with Shubham if the haiku Jam
communities now spans across 120
countries a line is published every
single second in our app and over 4
million jams have been published today
well what is infinitely more exciting
than the the product the technology it’s
the haiku gem community it’s always
inspires me to see how so many people
from all walks of life are connecting
and expressing themselves and forming
the most unexpected of bonds and
relationships you know yesterday I was I
was I came from Bombay and I flew into
Delhi and when I whatever I arrived in
Delhi now I really smile and feel very
good and it’s not because we have
thousands and thousands of jammers there
I mean that’s great of course but I
remember this very specific group of
people that met in haiku Jam they were
you know the earliest members of our
community and what’s very very
interesting about these people is how
different they look you know there’s
about ten of them there ten friends and
the youngest is I think 16 or 17 and
she’s in high school and the oldest is a
mother of two and she’s a housewife
and when you when you watch them
interact you feel as though they these
guys must have known each other you know
their entire lives maybe they’re even
family it looks like they’re on a family
outing a family vacation and it inspires
me to know that these guys met in haiku
Jam through a line of poetry and they’re
not just friends they’re not just
clothes they’re like kindred spirits you
know there are more than family and I
guess that really whenever I go through
Delhi it reminds me of why we’re doing
what we are doing it’s incredible just
how the you Forge that’s unexpected I
wouldn’t even say connections these are
bonds is a much much deeper than static
you know connections and I was also very
excited to come to bits pilani not
because you guys are awesome and great
that is true but because when we
launched haiku Jam we were in London and
we were planning to be in London or in
San Francisco and then we had this
little organic spike of traction in
India and at the time we didn’t think
much of it we thought okay some you know
some people have discovered it on the
App Store and they’re enjoying
themselves great three four months later
we couldn’t ignore that little spike
because it wasn’t a little spike most of
you know jammers were coming out of
India and we’re receiving so many email
so many tweets so many poems inside of
the app they were inviting us to come
and you know get to know them better and
we thought that maybe these guys were
poets right maybe there were writers
maybe they were you know publishers who
were thinking about digital and that
wasn’t the case they were actually
engineering students that college is
just like this one
and this really threw us off God you
know we just thought what is happening
why these guys like reading poster but
again it’s wonderful that they are
that’s really good for the platform but
why is this happening why is haiku time
culturally resonated so rather than look
at a dashboard of metrics and try and
understand you know we we got out into
the real world we came to Delhi we took
a flight and me we went to campuses and
we interacted and we try you know we we
had some really wonderful conversations
and again we were so inspired by these
we were hearing so many stories from
people who were saying that look I’m in
engineering school now but as a kid I
used to write I used to make music I
wanted to be an actor but then I had to
get into bits pilani and I had to devote
the next four years to that so there was
no more time to be really creative there
was no more time for hobbies as such and
with haiku jam all I have to do is send
out a line a couple of lines a day and
the world will jam with me it’s R it’s a
wonderful way to in stay in touch with
your creativity
um and you’d have to invest a lot of
time right and the return on your
investment of time is when people
interact with you and take your
expression in a completely new found
direction and you know and then what’s
again what’s what’s fascinated this is
that you’re not just being creative
often when you think of the lone artist
or creative person you maybe you you
know you may think of a writer in front
of the laptop right in that basement or
in the bedroom or an artist with an
easel you don’t really think of a
collective you don’t think of a lot of
people at the same time being creative
together but that’s what haiku Jam is
ultimately you’re being creative and
you’re discovering new people and new
ideas in the process so the community is
wonderful there are an incredible
stories and there’s just a lot a lot of
love and emotion right within the
platform and the interactions and more
recently as a team we wanted to
understand these interactions better we
wanted to understand what are the
underlying words what are the underlying
emotions behind those words haiku Jam is
a place where you know you’re never
alone your voice matters and you can
belong and under
lying all of that there’s this among
these fascinating emotional threats so a
few weeks ago we ran a series of
sentiment analysis experience
experiments using natural language
processing essentially we wanted to
understand how our people house the
Haiku gem community feeling about 2017
year just gone and how they feeling
about 2018 the year that lies ahead and
after some mining we found out two very
interesting things the first was that
people were a lot more positive about
2017 then we had expected right
especially when you consider the
underlying negative news events that
took place for me everything in the new
cycle was was pretty gloomy and dreary
and yet people were still positive
which was inspiring for us and the
second which the second thing that we we
learned which was a lot a lot more
exciting was the fact that jamming
specifically specifically collaboration
seemed to be lifting the mood of the
individual interactions we learned that
the ratio of positive to negative
sentiment across jams across the three
line poems was 20% higher than the same
ratio across individual lines right so
this would suggest that by working
together by creating to get by
collaborating in a creative context this
is bringing out the best that we have to
offer and literally lifting our inner
wonderful right it’s really great to
interact with people in such a way you
you know you leave feeling with a sense
of productivity of inspiration and you
discover all sorts of incredible people
in the process but the what I’d love for
you to take away today a core message I
wanted to tell you I’d love for you to
take away today is this that ultimately
we need more humanity more story and
more human
use in the technology that we’re
building we don’t need more algorithms
that are fighting for our engagement
just to sell us more advertising right
we need algorithms that are actually
fighting or our happiness we can’t lose
sight of our inner worlds you know
there’s been I think that if we ever
crack you know crack the problem of
sending rockets to the moon and to Mars
from our phones that’s great and that’s
incredible but I think we have some
bigger problems to solve before them we
need to start building models and
processes we’re into innovation where
human values where ethics and a sense of
humanity that’s a priority and this
isn’t just naive idealism ultimately
this is good for the this is make
business sense in the long run because
when you suddenly make you know human
connection and meaning a mandate it
means that new business models will
emerge we won’t you know protect
companies will no longer have to drug
people into just getting their
engagement than selling them ads people
will happily pay for experiences that
enrich their inner worlds that bring
more meaning to their lives and look
ultimately we’re not here for very long
right life is a journey from the first
breath that you take in when you’re born
little the last breath that you excel
whether it’s 60 years 70 years 80 years
90 years that’s it and we don’t control
a lot
there’s just most things in the universe
that we have very very little control
over the only thing that we have a lot
of agency over is how we use our time
how we think and how we use our hearts
so let’s not fritter away the time doing
things that just don’t matter or
pursuing power or money rather than that
let’s dive deep let’s be present and
let’s build for meaning thank you very much
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