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Now lately, we've come into a world. It seems like we're all at odds with each other. Everything is split down the middle. Things are a duality. It's either black versus white. Male versus female, this verse is that everything is split in 2 right it just seems like it's one thing versus another thing. But. The reality that there is no duality is something that we just created to get more eyeballs. That's right, folks, all this conflict that you're seeing a lot of discomfort vision scene is a duality that's been built on a false premise that people are either this or that there's this way or that way the reality is so there's always a third way, in fact, I would argue that there's more than a third way there isn't any way life is just not that simple and talk about simplicity before. We live in a very complex world, and human beings are very complex creatures. We don't live in a black and white world. We live in a multi-colored, multi-hued, fluid world where things are changing all the time. And I think what happens is that with human beings, we simplify things too much by putting him in this campaign other you're either us or with us or with them. You're there, you're there is for their cars, and the reality is it is a lot more gray than that. It's a lot more gray than that, so the reality is not the duality. When everyone is trying to get you into a position where you hear us versus them, rise above that see if you can go beyond that and see yourself. What can we do here? They will help both sides are insights. Do we really need to have taken one side over the other is there any way to work together. To improve things or look at a third where fourth we are a completely different way something totally out of the box the nobody has seen before. Let's break out of the duality. Let's understand that there are more than 2 ways of doing things. Once we understand that, I think you'll find that we'll get much closer to reality, the complex reality that underlies everything around us. We have to stop oversimplifying things to us versus them where one race where the human race and. As the human race, we should be working towards the improvement of the entire human race. All of this us versus them stuff is just getting in the way. It's clouding things we all have to align in the same direction. Improving humanity if we all aligned in the same breath direction improving humanity and stop wasting cycles on internet seen fighting then who knows how far we can go

Self-help, or help of any kind, makes its money when its audience doesn't leverage the help itself.

And maybe I'd like to sell those one day even though I'm the kind of guy who just sits on the couch after a long hard day and relaxes and watches TV. Maybe I could be this other guy if I disconnected myself from my past's etiology and said, you know what? I don't necessarily need to be like that person anymore; I can be like this person and be more like the person I want to be.

About Data Equity @ San José  The Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI) leverages technology to address pressing issues facing San José to improve our residents’ livelihoods, opportunities, and city experience. MOTI’s data equity team works with City departments to drive equitable outcomes for constituents via our data equity framework, which creates consistency, transparency, and accountability towards equity goals. With an emphasis on analyzing the City’s data ethically, we work with stakeholders to set, measure, and monitor equity objectives to address equity gaps in key city programs.  Christine Keung is the Chief Data Officer for the City of San Jose and a 2020-21 Harvard Business School Leadership Fellow. At the start of the pandemic, she joined a COVID-19 task force in the U.S. Small Business Administration to improve access to the Paycheck Protection Program. Christine began her professional career as an early member of Dropbox’s security team, and later Chief of Staff, serving as the operational lead of the company’s legal, policy, and security organization. She was also Head of Business Operations at Fountain, a growth-stage AI/ML startup, where she led the company through data regulation changes like the European Union’s GDPR and the U.S. Privacy Shield. Christine earned her B.A. in Economics at Wellesley College and her M.B.A. at Harvard Business School.  Julia Chen is a writer, editor, and arts professional. She is a graduate of Boston University (Class of 2014) with a Bachelor’s degree in English and has gone on to work primarily in the world of nonprofit, Off-Broadway theater (with a focus on marketing and development). Julia was most recently a finalist in Fiction for Kundiman's 2019 Mentorship Lab and a member of Winter Tangerine's April 2019 intensive workshop in New York City. Her work can be found in No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry and Honey Literary. She is currently an Assistant Fiction Editor for The Offing and leads communications for the City of San José's data equity project.

They don't just want the money out of it. They want recognition; the ones who are really truly innovative will prefer recognition to almost anything else. I fact, I've had plenty of situations where you can give away I. pads, or you can give away monetary rewards. Still, the monitor you the idea is you gonna get from Montr words pale in comparison from the ideas are you going to get if you do internal recognition or external recognition war. And lately, I've been reading.

There are lots of factors that affect how you're going to act in specific environments. If you're in a messy environment, you're more creative. If you're in a clean environment, you're productive.

We have a sense of the past, and in that sense of the past, we feel that there is a certain thing called a self. So in this, there's a continual between our past selves. I think this way. The past is done. 

Stephen Lehtonen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kasvaa. He’s spent the last 17 years helping businesses grow.

As a business development executive, he has honed strategies for winning business and loves helping clients create sales strategies that win. He has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from UCSD. Lehtonen is also a father, husband, and stand-up comic in Los Angeles.

Stephen’s comedy can be followed on Instagram @stephenlehtonen

Both matter.

Despite the bad "news", things are getting better for the human race.