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Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.
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Innovation
Want
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I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
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Boring
Broads
Edgy
Feels
Blog
Broad
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I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'
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Futurist
Should
Thinking
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Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
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Payer
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The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.
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Important
School
Type
Touch
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.
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Connected
Has Beens
Whole Life
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The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
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Extremism
Fighting
Ideas
Trying
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The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.
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Failing
Risk
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If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.
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Law
Rights
Terrorism
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If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
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Human Rights
Law
Response
Rights
Rule Of Law
Terrorism
Destroy
Won
Human
Rule
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
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Democracy
Fuzzy
Human Rights
Liberty
Rights
Specific
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There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.
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Needs
Pulling
Resources
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Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.
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Compatible
Essentials
Fighting
Human Rights
Rights
Terrorism
Essential
Merely
Upholding
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I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.
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Interaction
Korea
Strong
Ties
Fairly
Bond
Great Deal
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Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.
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If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!
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Cost
Ifs
Just Do It
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I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
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Bridges
Groups
Roles
Ambassador
Bridge
Dialog
Provide
Viewed
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We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
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History
Internet
Online
Wikipedia
Collectively
Talked
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Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
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Machines
Media
Penetration
People
Controls
Italy
Low
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You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.
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Mountain
Needs
Pencils
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When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
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Creativity
Culture
Form
Freedoms
Likely
Pressing
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Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
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Google
Important
Important Things
Position
Precedent
Target
Lawsuits
Tons
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Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
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Coaching
Focus
People
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Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
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Creative Work
Creativity
Inspiration
Passing
Past
Adding
Future Work Past
Inspirations
Work Future Past
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I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.
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Break Up
Smile
Government
Barriers
Break
Monopoly
Roles
Monopolies
Talked
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But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
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Adapting
Position
Compromising
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I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.
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Believe
Cost
Decrease
Delivery
Marketing
Mass
Mass Media
Media
Stronger
Net
Weaker
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I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
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Broken
Broken Heart
Decided
Democracy
Fixing
Japan
Noticed
Realized
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
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Cash
Consolidation
Democracy
Media
Appears
Check
Companies
Diminishing
Policies
Traded
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In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.
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Adults
Rest Of Your Life
Today
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I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.
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Creativity
Instruction
Thinking
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For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
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Believe
Both Sides
Friendly
Japan
Korea
Sides
Unreasonable
Believing
Extremists
Generally
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There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.
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Aggression
Convincing
Fighting
Majority
Surrender
Alternative
Won
Extremists
Therefore
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We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
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Believe
Bridges
Long Way
Providing
Voice
Wish
Peace Believe World
Peace Believe I Believe
Essential
Peace World Believe
Voices
World Peace
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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
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Human Rights
Innocent
International
Law
Rights
Terrorism
Would Be
Attacks
Define
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
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Opportunity
Communism
Driven
Fighting
Japan
Occupation
Functional
Discussed
Large Part
Missed
Postwar
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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
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Education
Communication
Agree
Moving
Moving Forward
Polarization
Trying
Acts
Try
Bad
Engage
Extremists
Forward
Harbor
Main
Thoughts
Stream
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In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
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Discovery
Old Stuff
People
Remix
Waiting
Deliver
World People Important
Rewarded
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The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
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Agree
Believe
Censorship
Combat
Competition
Debate
Democracy
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Free Speech
Ideas
Rights
Speech
Believe Democracy I Believe
Free
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Beliefs
Believe I Believe Democracy
Believe I Believe Competition
Cover
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Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.
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School
Thinking
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LinkedIn allows you to search histories and CVs in your network - it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know.
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People
Way
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Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.
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Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.
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Independent
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