When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

If the cost of figuring out whether to do something is more than just doing it, then just do it!

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.