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There is no manual for having a child, but you will figure it out with trial and error.

There is morning group time as a class followed by 3 hours of independent work time. This is when the students look at their agendas and choose which activities they want to do. Their goal is to complete all of the tasks in their agenda on a weekly basis.

Bill Nye is not sure, but he says in order for it to be clear, you want it to be logical. The rules are developed in a logical way.

Sahil knew Gumroad was running out of oxygen and the layoff were coming. When the day came though, it felt wrong. It felt like watching The Lord of The Ring, hoping for the happy ending, except that Frodo got killed and Sauron go the ring. It did not make sense.

Even though he had a support network, and people knew what was going on, failure was an awkward topic and Sahil was pretty alone. Unable to share in person, Sahil wrote a larticle about his story, called Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company.

Sahil was fully expecting to live alone in the mountains after that, but quite the opposite happened. People wanted to hear his story exactly because failures happens all the time in Silicon Valley, but no one talks about it. The post went viral!

No. According to Selden, there was a disease that wiped out all the bananas in the world in the 50s. So, the bananas that we eat now are actually from a different plant that we refer to as the banana. If you eat a banana flavored candy, you are not truly tasting the banana that we eat today.

Koch says that innovations occur by taking various ideas and combining them into novel ways. The scientific community, for example, has been able to make decisions by consensus, debate, and knowledge sharing, which has led to new discoveries and productivity.

Yes. For the Stewart, the host, he enjoy the simplicity of Substack. It is simple enough for him to write and publish material. There are also different features for free and paid subscribers. A podcast feature is also an option in Substack. The company focuses on email, newsletters, and podcast niches.

He says that cold calling is hard, but he found out that most realtors are pretty talkative. He says it’s important to get straight to the point and ask good questions. Sometimes you will get hung up on or yelled at, but more often, you will have people talking to you when you offer them help.

Economists focus too much on thing that are measurable, and forget about other things.

For example, if you look at medicine, it might seem like a binary problem: people either live or they die. But what about quality of life? If you are living a horrible life under treatment, and you die shortly after the treatment ends, this is not a victory, it's a mistake.

What about dignity? We might be able to write checks for anyone whose job is being replaced by a robot, but guess what, many people would prefer to find another job instead. There is a sense of dignity in being able to work for money, which you then use to provide for your family.

The data often struggles to help economists to make a non-quantifiable decision. It's important to realize that, and understand that sometimes a decisions cannot be made on data alone.

Ramin had his biggest beard in 2013-2014 when he appeared as Valjean of Les Miserables in Canada

Om says that sometimes around 2015 tech industry really blew up and it is now 10 or maybe even 20 times bigger than it was a decade ago. Much of our lives are now dependent on technology.

In fact, now during the covid19 pandemic, we can see that while the government is struggling to figure it out, private companies like Amazon are the ones delivering food and supplies to the citizens.

In a few decades, our lives will be completely dependent on tech, and that may be why some people are hating tech companies now, due to the sheer power they hold.

Om says that tech leaders need to understand this tremendous impact and to act accordingly.