Mental Health & Cities – Chirlane McCray on ThriveNYC
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At a point, we developed language sophisticated enough to transmit abstract ideas with precision from one mind to another. That enables high quality parallel processing of problems such that we literally have emergent cognition. When people gather, they talk about difficult puzzles they face, and the product of their thinking exceeds the sum of their individual capacity to reason through it.
I'm just a person who loves to do things before others. I try to do things before they become huge – I feel the market, the world, and try to be more-close to the world today. That's what I think it takes to be an entrepreneur.
The printing press helped democratise Europe by providing space for discussion and agreement among politically engaged citizens, often before the state had fully democratised.
Fundamentally you build trust with people by giving them trust.
If you are someone who has generated wealth, you have the responsibility to make sure this money is used to benefit the community. This is something that exists in all philosophies, cultures, and all religions. You have an obligation to the people around you, and your society.
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