Daniel Santos

But there’s a deeper, unasked question that lingers in the background, one introduced by the unconventional thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti in the early 1980s: “If the machine can take over everything man can do, and do it still better than us, then what is a human being, what are you?”

Remember that the people in the audience are intelligent. Let them figure some things out for themselves. Let them draw their own conclusions.

You must become a beginner.

—rainer maria rilke

“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” There is no other way to get anywhere.

Don’t waste anybody’s time with a barrage of details. Maybe it took you five years to develop your idea, but no one wants to hear about that when you’re trying to sell your idea (to an investor or a customer)—that can become part of your legend later on. You need a sharply focused plan, with all its various strands woven together into a cohesive

A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the edge of a vast national park, and one of the biggest challenges is protecting the animals from lions—especially at night. Richard had noticed that