The Reshaping of the World with Thomas Friedman

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• Importance of Public Education (05:20) 
• Thomas Friedman’s Educational Experiences (06:09) 
  • Mr. Friedman’s articles on New York Times
  • A beautiful tribute to Hattie Steinberg by Friedman 
• Reshaping of our World (08:45) 
  • “Now is the time to understand more so that we can fear less.” - Marie Curie
  • 3 Climate Changes at once: Mother Nature, Market, Moore’s Law
  • Exponential growth
• Moore’s Law - Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel (09:42) 
  • Friedman on Moore’s law
  • The Second Machine Age, Brynjolfsson & McAfee
  • The back half of the chessboard parable, Forbes
  • Friedman on the chessboard parable and the acceleration of technology
  • Quantum computing
  • Volkswagon Beetle story
• Technology accelerating at a pace that humans can’t adapt (13:40)
  • Graph that Astro Teller, Google X, drew on Friedman’s wall
• Mother Nature - Resilience & Propulsion (14:21) 
  • An Interview with Mother Nature
  • Questions for us to apply to education within these characteristics (17:32)
  • #ClearTheAir on Twitter - from the amazing @ValeriaBrownEDU and team 
  • Teaching Tolerance
  • Episodes with Manoush Zomorodi / Cal Newport / Natalie Wexler
  • Friedman’s CV
• Lifelong Learning (21:45) 
  • Self-motivation divide: Owning Your Own Future - single most important competitive advantage
• Advice to his daughters (23:12) 
  • Think like an immigrant - Paranoid Optimism 
  • Think like an artisan - from The Goldens @ Harvard
  • Think like a starter-upper in Silicon Valley - Reid Hoffman - Always be in Beta (Skyline High School STEM Academy)
  • CQ + PQ > IQ
  • Think like a waitress at Perkins Pancake House in Minneapolis - be relentlessly entrepreneurial 
• Identity in the reshaped world (30:25)
  • Friedman on the new grid
  • Binary bias
  • Myth of hemispheric dominance in the brain
  • Personality Tests (Myers-Briggs: Vox, Adam Grant)  
• The Golden Rule (33:16)
  • Friedman on the golden rule
  • Marigolds, Jennifer Gonzalez
• The Eye People (34:13) 
  • Brandi Carlisle - The Eye
    • Refrain: “I wrapped your love around me like a chain, but I never was afraid that it would die. You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you’re standing in the eye.”  
  • Dynamic stability - Astro Teller on dynamic stability