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but other than that it was actually a lawless place and almost every social institution both public and private had been destroyed so i can tell you that when you go into one of these situations and settings it is absolutely thrilling for about minutes because that's about how long it takes before you run into a situation where you realize how incredibly vulnerable you are for me that moment came when i had to cross the first checkpoint and i realized as i drove up that i would be negotiating passage through this checkpoint with a heavily armed individual who if he decided to shoot me right then and there actually wouldn't be doing anything illegal but the sense of vulnerability that i had was absolutely nothing in comparison to the vulnerability of the families that i got to know over that year you see life in a society where there are no social institutions is riddled with danger and uncertainty and simple questions like what are we going to eat tonight are very complicated to answer questions about security when you don't have any security systems are terrifying
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i will always remember the first time i met the girl in the blue uniform i was eight at the time living in the village with my grandmother who was raising me and other children famine had hit my country of zimbabwe and we just didn't have enough to eat we were hungry and that's when the girl in the blue uniform came to my village with the united nations to feed the children as she handed me my porridge i asked her why she was there and without hesitation she said as africans we must uplift all the people of africa i had absolutely no idea what she meant
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blank page with one horizontal line splitting it in half now imagine that women are represented here and men are represented here in our current population is about moving the billion men one man at a time across that line so that ultimately men can stand alongside women and be on the right side of history making gender equality a reality in the century however engaging men in the movement would prove quite controversial why invite men they are the problem
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in fact men don't care we were told but something incredible happened when we launched in just three days more than men had signed up and committed to be agents of change for equality within that first week at least one man in every single country in the world stood up to be counted and within that same week created more than billion conversations on social media and that's when the emails started pouring in sometimes as many as a thousand a day we heard from a man out of zimbabwe who after hearing about created a husband school
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but her words stuck with me two years later famine hit my country for the second time my grandmother had no choice but to send me to the city to live with an aunt i had never met before so at the age of i found myself in school for the very first time and there at the city school i would experience what it was to be unequal you see in the village we were all equal
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and there at the city school i would experience what it was to be unequal you see in the village we were all equal but in the eyes and the minds of the other kids i was not their equal i couldn't speak english and i was way behind in terms of reading and writing but this feeling of inequality would get even more complex every school holiday spent back in the village with my grandmother made me consciously aware of the inequalities this incredible opportunity had created within my own family suddenly i had much more than the rest of my village and in their eyes i was no longer their equal i felt guilty
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i felt guilty but i thought about the girl in the blue uniform and i remember thinking that's who i want to be someone like her someone who other people this childhood experience led me to the united nations and to my current role with un women where we are addressing one of the greatest inequalities that affects more than half of the world's population women and girls today i want to share with you a simple idea that seeks to uplift all of us together eight months ago under the visionary leadership of head of un women we launched a groundbreaking initiative called inviting men and boys from around the world to stand in solidarity with each other and with women to create a shared vision for gender equality this is an invitation for those who believe in equality for women and men and those who don't yet know that they believe the initiative is based on a simple idea that what we share is much more powerful than what divides us we all feel the same things
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i was also very interested in perhaps going into surgery and becoming a surgeon because it meant working with my hands in a very focused intense way so i started taking art courses and i found a way to make sculpture that brought together my love for being very precise with my hands with coming up with different kinds of logical flows of energy through a system and also working with wire everything that i did was both a visual and a mechanical engineering decision at the same time so i was able to sort of exercise all of that now this kind of machine is as close as i can get to painting and it's full of many little trivial end points like there's a little foot here that just drags around in circles and it doesn't really mean anything it's really just for the sort of joy of its own triviality the connection i have with engineering is the same as any other engineer in that i love to solve problems i love to figure things out but the end result of what i'm doing is really completely ambiguous
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the point is that you get into trouble when you ask a single question with a single box for an answer in which that single question actually is many questions with quite different meanings but with the same words asking what is simplicity i think falls in that category what is the state of science and interestingly complexity is very highly evolved we have a lot of interesting information about what complexity is simplicity for reasons that are a little bit obscure is almost not pursued at least in the academic world we academics i am an academic we love complexity you can write papers about complexity and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways so you're not responsible for outcomes
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you're not interested in the limits of these things so what one is interested in has a lot to do with the rewards of the system and there's a lot of rewards in thinking about complexity and emergence not so much in thinking about simplicity one of the things i want to do is to help you with a very important task which you may not know that you have very often which is to understand how to sit next to a physicist at a dinner party and have a conversation
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that is you know what simplicity is you know what complexity is the trouble is i don't and what i'm going to do is share with you my ignorance on this subject i want you to read this because we're going to come back to it in a moment
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i want you to read this because we're going to come back to it in a moment the quote is from the fabled potter stewart opinion on pornography and let me just read it the important details here shorthand description and perhaps i could never succeed in defining it but i know it when i see it i'm going to come back to that in a moment so what is simplicity it's good to start with some examples a coffee cup we don't think about coffee cups but it's much more interesting than one might think a coffee cup is a device which has a container and a handle
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i want to start with a story a la seth godin from when i was years old my uncle ed gave me a beautiful blue sweater at least i thought it was beautiful and it had fuzzy zebras walking across the stomach and mount kilimanjaro and mount were kind of right across the chest that were also fuzzy and i wore it whenever i could thinking it was the most fabulous thing i owned until one day in ninth grade when i was standing with a number of the football players and my body had clearly changed and matt who was undeniably my nemesis in high school said in a booming voice that we no longer had to go far away to go on ski trips but we could all ski on mount
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we drove to the goodwill and we threw the sweater away somewhat my idea being that i would never have to think about the sweater nor see it ever again fast forward years later i'm a old kid i'm working in kigali rwanda jogging through the steep slopes when i see feet in front of me a little boy years old running toward me wearing my sweater and i'm thinking no this is not possible but so curious i run up to the child of course scaring the living out of him grab him by the collar turn it over and there is my name written on the collar of this sweater i tell that story because it has served and continues to serve as a metaphor to me about the level of that we all have on this earth
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