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10177
now imagine someone as twisted as me trying to build a house
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10179
and so this is framing lumber composite materials and it's kind of hard to get the embodied energy out of that but it can be a sustainable resource if you use certified lumber
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10180
when it comes time to if you use it's about a quarter of the embodied energy of standard
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10183
i call this the alpha piece
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10184
he knew before he arrived that the foundation was going to be live streaming his event but what he didn't know until he turned up was that they'd erected a giant screen feed right next to his head
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10187
so justine chuckled to herself and pressed send and got no replies and felt that sad feeling that we all feel when the internet doesn't congratulate us for being funny
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10188
you are the worldwide number one trending topic on
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10190
and one internet economist told me that that meant that made somewhere between dollars and dollars from annihilation whereas those of us doing the actual shaming we got nothing
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10191
it didn't go down that well with some people
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10192
we could hit them with a weapon that we understood but they didn't a social media shaming
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10193
let me tell you a story
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10196
you know another woman on that night a new statesman writer helen lewis she reviewed my book on public shaming and wrote that she that night i'm not sure that her joke was intended to be racist and she said straightaway she got a fury of saying well you're just a privileged bitch too
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10197
justine was really uniting a lot of disparate groups that night from philanthropists to rape the bitch
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10198
employee in question currently unreachable on an flight
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10199
we knew something that justine didn't
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10200
and i would try and crack these jokes but she caught on to me really quickly and whenever i tried to make a joke she would look at me and say that is actually really sad
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10201
i loved her but with the ferocity that a child has sometimes before she understands that love also requires letting go
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10208
and i was reminded how utterly wrong i am so much of the time
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10212
you know aristotle says a tragedy is that moment when the hero comes face to face with his true identity
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10213
and i'm standing there with two testicles on my chin
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10215
and i talk to him
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10218
and he points out there
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10219
my responsibility is to get you home rich
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10220
good grief not to this crowd
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10222
i'm an apprentice and i work with the people who do the jobs in question
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10224
albert is the shepherd in question
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10228
literally the transition from ignorance to knowledge is
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10231
people with dirty jobs are happier than you think
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10233
he didn't follow his passion
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10234
so i started to look at passion i started to look at efficiency vs
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10239
you know our tools today don't look like shovels and picks
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10241
they're two sides of the same coin just like innovation and imitation like risk and responsibility like and like that poor little lamb who i hope isn't quivering anymore and like my time that's gone
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10246
hey we live in a very noxious world
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10247
step back give your mother a break okay
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10248
without them humanity cannot survive
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10249
and i walked up to the bedside of an old woman who was breathing very rapidly fragile obviously in the latter phase of active dying
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10250
that would be an olympic event turn a squirrel loose whoever catches it gets a gold medal
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10252
the uterus would literally fall out of the body
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10254
well emily baer runners she finishes in eighth place in the top even though she stopped at all the aid stations to breastfeed her baby during the race
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10256
i'm not ready
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10259
come with us
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10260
go
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10261
when you have two in one organism it's not a coincidence
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10262
when the arrived in north america you had two choices you either fight back and engage or you could take off
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10266
and in the words of malcolm gladwell crack cocaine was the extra chunky version of tomato sauce for the inner city
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10267
now was lucky he was such a freak and that clipboard probably saved his life because they figured no other rival gang member would be coming up to shoot at them with a clipboard
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10272
and you and i probably faced with the situation would think i guess i'm going to write my dissertation on the grateful dead i've been following them for the last three months
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10273
and especially for me as i sat in my office with my excel spreadsheet open waiting for to come and deliver to me the latest load of data that he would get from the gang
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10275
it's amazing but the top level of the gang they actually call themselves the board of directors
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10276
got to know very well the guy who had the unfortunate assignment of trying to take the iowa franchise which it turned out for this black gang was not one of the more brilliant financial endeavors they undertook
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10277
it turns out the death rates on death row from all causes including execution two percent a year
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10278
i think the gang member says it much more than the economist about what's going on
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10280
and it never would really occur to an economist that this idea of and could really be important
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10284
and for the people who were there running the gang it was a great way seemingly to make a lot of money
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10285
and in his own words he looked like a freak
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10286
he took one look at who was going to go do some surveys for him and decided he knew exactly the place to send him which was to one of the toughest most notorious housing projects not just in chicago but in the entire united states
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10288
and they're the ones who basically make the profit or lose a profit depending on how good they are at running the business
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10289
so the same kids who are working in the gang were actually at the very same time typically working part time at a place like mcdonald's
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10290
it was below the minimum wage
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10292
the money looks about the same
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10293
to put it into perspective if you compare this to the soldiers in iraq for instance right now fighting the war
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10294
so what happened was the people who happened to be in the right place at the right time the people who happened to be leading the gang in the mid became very very wealthy
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10295
they were willing to start at the bottom just like say a first year lawyer at a law firm is willing to start at the bottom work weeks for not that much money because they think they're going to make partner
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10296
and they didn't really have gold jewelry they had gold plated jewelry
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10297
let me do one last thing i hadn't thought i'd have time to do which is to talk about what we learned more generally about economics from the study of the gang
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10298
it's as if you reduced all of the world's cuisines down to airline food
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10299
these aren't palaces or cathedrals
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10304
right so when institutions are told they are obstacles and that there are other ways of coordinating the value they go through something a little bit like the kubler ross stages of reaction being told you have a fatal illness denial anger bargaining acceptance
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10305
and you can see why from point of view that's a bad idea right we hired this programmer he came in he drank our cokes and played for three years and he had one idea
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10306
right bad hire
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10307
now this is the part of the talk where i tell you what's going to come as a result of all of this but i'm running out of time which is good because i don't know
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10309
you found an institution and you use the institution to coordinate the activities of the group
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10310
some people get less dressed up
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10311
is a photo sharing service that allows people to take photos them share them over the web and so forth
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10314
if you're thinking it's ironic that i asked people to download another app so that they would spend less time on their phones yeah but you gotta meet people where they are
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10315
that is exactly the behavior that the technology is built to trigger
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10316
as one designer told me the only people who refer to their customers as users are drug dealers and technologists
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10319
i deleted the game two dots and nearly cried
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10320
i was one of the first people into belgrade when there was a revolution in serbia
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10321
i created my dream job hosting a public radio show
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10323
i updated my calendar while i was sitting on the couch
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10325
totally awesome right so this is my brain in an and i learned that in the default mode is when we connect disparate ideas we solve some of our most nagging problems and we do something called autobiographical planning
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10326
so switch switch switch you're using glucose glucose glucose
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10327
we also found strangely enough that the shorter the amount of sleep that a person gets the more likely they are to check
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10329
this particular reel it's an industrial video but it was shown in drive in theaters in in the detroit area in fact and it preceded alfred hitchcock's psycho
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10330
we use words like grasp metaphorically to also think about understanding things
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10331
there was one held in detroit here last summer and it will be held again next summer at the henry ford
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10335
and we have had a speaker who said that very thing and swallowed a sword right after that which was quite dramatic
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10340
ghana becomes independent so it is just over years ago
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10342
i don't know if he's bare chested but it kind of feels like it
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10343
so i ran on down to the junior college registered for some classes ran on back and basically was like i'm thinking about my future now
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10344
so when i randomly ran down to the junior college and registered for classes i really wasn't paying attention to what i was registering to
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10345
i got this
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10347
it was poorly let's just put it that way
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10348
when can we talk because we need to talk
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10349
there was so much history that we would have to go through to try to explain that and that's something i try to do with them anyways
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10353
above you right here on the slide is a painting by frans
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10355
i want to show you something
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10376
but i gave him the money because i was from riverdale so i had more money than he did
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10378
but you know we said david who's going to know they're not
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