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How Is The Page Organized?

As one works through the tutorials, content from oldest to newest tends to get a bit harder.


What Is The Earliest Memory Shauna Swerland Has Of Being A Leader ?

Shauna jokes that she has been the leader-type her whole life. She remembers running for student council in second grade.


What Got Will Hatton Curious About Backpacking?

Will was due to join the Army, but before doing it he decided to do a 10-week physical challenging program in Costa Rica. While out there on a three week hike, he ended up in a hospital. Months of recovery and physical therapy later, he was no longer eligible to join the Army. Unsure what to do, Will took all his savings and moved to India, where the real adventure began.


What Is The Death Penalty Like?

In Mississippi, Isonhood states that it’s like an unspoken culture. The basic logic is if a person murders someone, then they will receive the death penalty.


What Tools Can Be Provided To A Child That Is Being Called Names ?

They should learn to stand strong with a non-passive posture and assertively name the cruel behavior they were the recipient of. They should then remove themselves from the situation.


How Much Structure Is The Right Fit?

Ross uses the example of chore time for his kids. He states that when the boundaries are too open ended, the kids becomes lost and confused. If they make them too by the book, they become unmanageable.


How Will Ai Affect The Ability For Humans To Learn, Build, And Create?

Zubovsky can’t provide a specific answer, but thinks that if you follow open AI, you will have a really good sense of what’s possible. He hopes that AI will remove mindless tasks from our lives.


What Isn’t Possible For Helga To Do?

Helga couldn’t possibly be nibbling on Belinda’s nipple while licking the rest of Belinda’s breast with her mouth.


Why Did Nir Eyal Write The Book "Hooked"?

Nir wrote Hooked because while Facebook and similar gaming and social media companies knew how to capture users' attention, they did not want anyone else to use those techniques. Nir wanted other entrepreneurs to be take advantage of these methods in pursuit of good, to create healthy habits in people's lives.


What Was It Like To Be Investing In The Early Personal Computer?

To make a computer as we know it today, everything had to be invented. There was no such thing as an operating system. There was no such thing as a mouse. Semiconductors opened a whole new realm of possibilities.


Why Did Don Valentine Find Silicon Valley So Attractive?

Don Valentine did not know about Silicon Valley at first, but he knew chemistry and he wanted to be in the semiconductor business.

Most established companies at the time were going nowhere, using chemistry that was long outdated. The eventual decision really was based on a combination of boring and failing product development.

Silicon Valley was the place of the future, built around spectacular universities, the cornerstone of technology.


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