How to Recreate Yourself in the Middle of a Transition

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I suspect you guys both agree that we are going through a major transition as a society and as a world really. And technology has generally brought, seems to have been the cusp of these big transitions. How do we get better at reinventing ourselves? I feel like every time we have to go through it, it's because there's a lot of pain, there's a war, there's angst that leads to it. In the midst of a transition, how can we use technology to reinvent ourselves and become better? We don't move away from controversy. There is so much...

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