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HERE'S WHAT'S COMING UP.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS ACCELERATING QUITE FAST ACTUALLY NOW.
CODE RED FOR HUMANITY.
THAT BLISTERS WARNING FROM THE UN.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS WIDESPREAD, INTENSIFYING AND CAUSED BY US.
THEN, WHAT CAN WE DO?
I'LL SPEAK TO THE ARCHITECT HELPING TO SHIELD OUR COASTAL CITIES.
IF WE END UP CHECKING AN INBOX, OUR BRAINS BASICALLY MELT DOWN.
A WORLD WITHOUT E-MAIL?
WANTS FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE INBOX.
AND FINALLY -- ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
PRINCE'S PROPHETIC ALBUM.
I ASK HIS CLOSE FRIEND VAN JONES WHY RELEASE IT NOW?
AND WHAT DOES IT SAY A DECADE AFTER RECORDING.
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> WELCOME TO THE PROGRAM EVERYONE.
I'M CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR IN LONDON.
GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING FASTER THAN WE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.
NO CORNER OF THE EARTH IS UNAFFECTED AND WE ARE TO BLAME.
THAT IS FROM THE U.N. IN A LANDMARK REPORT WITH STRONG WORDS FROM SECRETARY GENERAL ANTONIO GUTIERREZ.
THE ALARM BELLS ARE DEAFENING AND EVIDENCE IRREFUTABLE.
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ARE CHOKING THE PLANT AND PUTTINGBIE RISK.
EVEN IF WE WANTED TO IGNORE IT, WE CANNOT.
WILD FIRES ARE RAGING RIGHT NOW IN CALIFORNIA AND SIBERIA.
APOCALYPTIC SCENES IN GREECE WITH THOUSANDS FORCED TO FLEE BURNING INFERNOS.
DEADLY HEAT WAVE.IN CANADA A FATAL FLOODS IN GERMANY AND CHINA.
DROUGHT IN CENTRAL BRAZIL.
EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS HAVE BEEN INTENSIFYING FOR YEARS.
THE NEXT AND SOME SAY THE LAST CHANCE TO GET THE WORLD TO PAY ATTENTION AND TO KEEP TO THEIR COMMITMENTS WILL COME AT THE U.N. CLIMATE SUMMIT IN NOVEMBER.
WELCOME TO THE PROGRAM, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS PRETTY, I MEAN, LET ME SAY IT, APOCALYPTIC DAY AND REALLY QUITE TERRIFYING WARNINGS.
I GUESS I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU, DO YOU AGREE, FIRST, WITH THE DIRE WARNINGS FROM THE IPCC?
AND DO YOU THINK WE'RE HEADING INTO THE CATASTROPHE THAT THEY ARE PREDICTING?
WELL THANK YOU, VERY MUCH FOR HAVING ME ON THE PROGRAM.
THE REPORT THAT THE IPCC HAS PUT OUT IS OBVIOUSLY HUGELY COMPREHENSIVE AND IT IS BASED ON THE SCIENCE.
AND THE SCIENCE IS VERY CLEAR EXACTLY AS YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR INTRODUCTION.
IT IS HUMANITY WHICH IS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE THAT WE'RE SEEING AROUND THE WORLD.
WHAT THE REPORT DOES CONCLUDE, THAT THERE IS STILL A WINDOW OPEN, THE DOOR IS STILL SLIGHTLY AJAR IN TERMS OF US TAKING THE ACTIONS TO AVOID THE WORST IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
BUT I'M AFRAID THAT DOOR IS GOING TO CLOSE PRETTY SOON UNLESS WE TAKE ACTION NOW.
AND THAT'S WHY AS PART OF THE WORK THAT MY TEAM AND I ARE DOING ON COPP 26, WE ARE ASKING EVERY COUNTRY TO COME FORWARD WITH AMBITION EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGETS AND ALSO FOLLOW THAT THROUGH WITH ACTION AS WELL.
SO THAT'S WHERE IT GETS, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE SORT OF RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD, DOESN'T IT?
THERE IS PROMISES AND THERE IS ACTION.
I SPOKE TO JOHN KERRY FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE NOW CLIMBED CZAR UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, HE OBVIOUSLY ADS YOU KNOW ORGANIZED THE U.S. AND PART OF THE COPP 25 IN PARIS.
THIS IS WHAT HE SAID TO ME ABOU.
LET'S JUST LISTEN.
WE'RE NOT ON A TRACK, EVEN IF WE DID EVERYTHING THAT WE PROMISED TO DO ALL OF US IN PARIS, WE STILL WOULD HAVE A RISE IN THE EARTH'S TEMPERATURE.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2.5 AND 3.5 DEGREES.
THAT'S CATASTROPHIC.
SO WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO ACCELERATE.
AND THE PARIS AGREEMENT CONTEMPLATED THAT COUNTRIES WOULD COME TOGETHER SEVERAL YEARS DOWN THE ROAD AND MAKE A JUDGMENT ABOUT WHERE WE ARE AND THEN RAISE AMBITION.
SO GLASGOW IS DEFINITIVELY ABOU.
SO IT WAS THERE, LAID IT OUT.
ALL THESE COUNTRIES, 196 OR SO SIGNED ON.
NOW YOU HAVE TO CORRAL THEM INTO ACTUALLY MEETING THESE PROMISES.
AND I GUESS THAT IS WHERE MANY OF US, YOU KNOW, WE SORT OF DESPAIR IF YOU CAN'T GET CHINA, INDIA WHO STILL BELIEVE IN COAL OR SAUDI ARABIA AND THE OTHERS POURING OUT FOSSIL FUELS.
WHAT IS IT YOU CAN SAY TO THEM AT THIS POINT TO GET THEM TO MEET THESE PROMISES AND PLEDGES FOR BASIC HUMAN SURVIVAL?
WELL GLASGOW OF COURSE IS ABOUT RAISING THE AMBITION PAR.
AND IT IS THE FIRST PIECE IN THE MECHANISM SET IN PLACE IN THEPA.
NOW, IF YOU LOOK CHRISTIANE WHEN THE UK TOOK ON THE PRESIDENCY, LESS THAN 30% OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WAS COVERED BY NET ZERO COMMITMENT.
WE ARE NOW AT 70%. SO THAT IS PROGRESS BUT OF COURSE WE NEED ALL COUNTRIES TO STEP FORWARD WITH THE NET ZERO COMMITMENT BY THE MIDDLE OF THE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE G-7 NATIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER EVERY G 7 COUNTRY WITH AMBITIOUS PLANS ON TRAJECTORY TO CUT TO NET ZERO BY 2050.
THAT IS PROGRESS.
BUT PARTICULARLY WE NEED THE G 20 NATIONS THAT HAVE NOT YET COME FORWARD WITH MORE AMBITIOUS PLANS TO CUT EMISSIONS AND THAT IS WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS TALKING TO THEM.
I CAN TELL YOU FROM THE CONVERSATIONS THAT I'M HAVING IS THAT EVERY COUNTRY DOES RECOGNIZE THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT JUST REAL BUT IS AFFECTING THEIR POPULATIONS AS WELL.
AND THERE IS A VERY CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE BORDERS.
AND THAT'S WHY THEY ALL NEED TO STEP UP.
WE'VE OF COURSE BEFORE COPP 26 WE'VE GOT THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SEPTEMBER.
WE'VE GOT THE G 20 LEADERS EVENT TAKING PLACE IN OCTOBER.
THOSE ARE AGAIN OCCASIONS WHERE COUNTRIES THAT HAVE NOT COME FORWARD WITH AMBITIOUS PREDICTIONS SO STEP FORWARD AND DO SO.
AND INDEED WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS SUPPORTING DEVELOPING NATIONS AS WELL.
BACK IN 2009, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES MADE COMMITMENT THAT FROM 2020 TO 2025, EVERY YEAR A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS WOULD BE MOBILIZED TO SUPPORT DEVELOPING ECONOMIES.
WE'RE NOT THERE YET.
WE'VE SEEN SOME NEW FINANCING MONEY THAT'S COME FORWARD AT TH, FROM GERMANY, FROM CANADA, FROM JAPAN BUT WE NEED EVERY G 7 NATION.
WE NEED ALL THE DONORS TO COME FORWARD AND STEP UP SO THAT QUESTION PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AS THEY LOOK TO MAKE CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION AND INDEED TO ADAPT THE CLIMATE CHANGE THAT WE'RE ALREADY SEEING AROUND THE WORLD.
THERE ARE TWO ISSUES THERE I'D LIKE TO BRING UP.
ONE IS CLIMATE CHANGE BY AND LARGE DOES NOT HAPPEN JUST BY ITSELF.
THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR REPORT THAT SAID UNEQUIVOCALLY IT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE OF US.
SO YOU SAID ALL COUNTRIES.
PRESUMABLY YOURS AS WELL.
PRESUMABLY THE UK.
AND WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE PLANS NOW TO TAP IN THE OIL FIELD OFF SHETLAND AND BRITISH GOVERNMENT ALSO SAYS MORE OIL OR GAS WELLS CAN BE DRILLED IN THE NORTH SEA AND PLANS MORE A NEW COAL MINE IN CANBERRA.
IT COUNT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE UK I THINK I CAN TELL YOU FROM THE CONVERSATIONS I HAVE WITH GOVERNMENTS AND PARTIES AROUND THE WORLD IS THE UK IS RECOGNIZED AS A COUNTRY WHICH HAS BEEN ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE GREEN GROWTH.
OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS WE'VE GROWN OUR ECONOMY BY ALMOST 80% AND YET CUT EMISSIONS BY OVER 40%. THE G 20 NATIONS, IT IS IMPORTANT THEY ALL STEP FORWARD BUT IF YOU LOOK SINCE THE YEAR 2000, THE UK ECONOMY HAS BEEN THE FASTEST OF DECARBONIZING OF ALL THE G 20 NATIONS.
SO OF COURSE IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO LEAD.
WE'VE BEEN SHOWING THAT AND SPECIFICALLY ON THE ISSUES YOU HAVE RAISED ABOUT COAL MINES WHAT I WOULD SAY TO YOU IS THAT THERE IS OF COURSE A PUBLIC INQUIRY GOING TO TAKE PLACE ON THAT AND PEOPLE HAVE A CHANCE TO SET OUT THEIR VIEWS.
BUT ON THE BROADER ISSUE OF COAL WE HAVE EFFECTIVELY ALMOST ELIMINATED COAL FROM OUR ELECTRICITY MIX AND WE HAVE GONE THROUGH AROUND 40% IN 2012 TO LESS THAN 2% NOW.
AND WE WILL HAVE NO MORE COAL IN OUR MIX FROM 2024.
THE REASON CHRISTIANE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS IS BECAUSE WE HAVE BUILT THE LARGEST OFF SHORE WIND SECTOR IN THE WORLD, WHICH WE ARE LOOKING TO QUADRUPLE AND TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE ON OIL AND GAS, THAT YOU WERE MAKING REFERENCE TO THE CAM BAA OIL FIELD.
THIS IS AN EXIST LICENSE.
AND THERE'S BEEN A PUBLIC CONSULTATION.
WE'LL SEE WHAT THE OIL AND GAS HAS ALREADY COME FORWARD WITH.
BUT IN TERMS OF ANY FUTURE LICENSING, WE HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR AS A GOVERNMENT THAT THERE WILL BE A CLIMATE COMPATIBILITY CHECKPOINT.
WE WILL ENSURE THAT ANY FUTURE LICENSES ARE JUDGED AGAINST OUR LEGAL COMMITMENT THAT WE WILL BE NET ZERO BY 2050 IN OUR ECONOMY.
OBVIOUSLY YOU KNOW VERY WELL MICHAEL MANN ONE OF THE LEAD OUTERS OF THE 2001 IPCC REPORT.
HE SAID TODAY BOTTOM LINE IS WE HAVE ZERO YEARS LEFT TO AVOID DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE BECAUSE IT IS HERE.
WHAT I DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND IS THAT OUR CIVILIZATION HAS SHOWN ITSELF ABLE TO ADAPT TO SO MANY CHALLENGES SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL AGE BEFORE AND SINCE.
WHAT IS IT THAT LET'S SAY FOSSIL FUEL GIANTS OR THE OTHERS DON'T GET ABOUT THE FACT THAT IT COULD BE A MASSIVE ECONOMIC BOOM TO GO INTO GREEN TECHNOLOGY AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT WOULD HOPEFULLY TRY TO SAVE US FROM THIS CATASTROPHE THAT WE SEEM TO BE BARRELLING TOWARDS?
WHERE IS THE FAILURE, EITHER FROM GOVERNMENT, CHA HAS TO HOLD THEM TO ACCOUNT, OR -- OR ANY OTHER AREAS THAT GET THEM TO RETHINK THEIR ECONOMIES?
WELL, I THINK I THINK WE ARE AT AN INFLECTION POINT WHERE YOU ARE HEARING THE SAME MESSAGE FROM MANY GOVERNMENTS, BUSINESSES AND -- AROUND THE WORLD THAT WE HAVE TO TAKAL CLIMATE CHANGE KNEW.
WHEN I TALK TO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AROUND THE WORLD THEY DO UNDERSTAND THAT ACTUALLY INVESTING IN GREEN GROWTH IS A HUGE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY.
IN FACT INVESTING IN THE GREEN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IS THE BIGGEST INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY SINCE THE ORIGINAL INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
THAT IS VERY CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD.
WE ARE WITH THE U.N. WORKING ON A CAMPAIGN CALLED RACE TO ZERO, WHERE NON STATE ACTORS, MANY OF THEM BUSINESSES, ARE COMMITTING TO GO TO NET ZERO BY 2050.
AND THERE IS A BIG MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION.
WE'RE ALSO ENSURING THAT WE GET THE PRIVATE SECTOR FINANCE COMMITMENTS AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE A CAMPAIGN CALLED G FANS, THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ALLIANCE FOR NET ZERO.
THE GLASGOW FINANCIAL ALLIANCE FOR NET ZERO.
OVER 80 TRILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF ASSETS COMMITTED TO GO TO NET ZERO BY 2050.
SO THERE IS THIS REALIZATION AND IN TERMS OF A MOVE TO CLEAN ENERGY, YOU ARE SEEING ACROSS THE WORLD.
YOU ARE SEEING IT ACCELERATE.
TAKE COAL AS AN EXAMPLE BECAUSE YOU RAISED THAT EARLIER ON IN THIS CONVERSATION.
THE REALITY IS THAT PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTORS ARE INCREASINGLY WARY ABOUT INVESTING IN COAL ASSETS AND COAL POWER PLANTS BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE THAT ON A 10, 15 YEAR VIEW THEY ARE GOING TO END UP WITH STRANDED ASSETS.
SO THE MARKET IS MOVING.
BUT OF COURSE WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS HELP COUNTRY, PARTICULARLY DEVELOPING NATIONS TO ACCELERATE A LOT FASTER IN TERMS OF THEIR CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION.
SO IN YOUR DIPLOMACY THAT YOU ARE HAVING RIGHT NOW WITH, YOU KNOW, CHINA, INDIA AND ALL THE ORE OTHERS, DO YOU HAVE ANY HOPE, REALISTIC HOPE THEY WILL DO WHAT THEY NEED?
THEY ARE COMMITTED TO COAL, THEY ARE BUILDING NEW COAL PLANTS.
YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE REALLY PULLING BACK LIKE THEY NEED TO AND THEY ARE MAJOR POLLUTERS.
WELL I THINK IN TERMS OF CHINA, FIRST.
PRESIDENT XI JINPING HAS COMMITTED THAT CHINA WILL BE NET ZERO BY 2060, THEIR EMISSIONS WILL COME BY 2030.
AND I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT -- OUT THERE SUGGESTS CHINA IS LIKELY TO PEAK EMISSIONS BEFORE 2030 AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE ISSUE OF COAL YOU MAY WELL HAVE SEEN BACK IN MAY THAT THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA, WHICH I THINK BY ASSETS IS THE LARGEST BANK IN THE WORLD, HAS SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE LOOKING AT A ROEL COAL FINANCING.
SO YOU ARE SEEING MOVES.
BUT CHINA AS WITH EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IT IS IMPORTANT THERE ARE OTHERS TOP LINE COMMITMENT BUT WE ALSO NEED TO SEE THE DETAILED POLICY TO GO WITH IT.
AND THAT IS WHAT I AM PRESSING COLLEAGUES ON BEIJING ON.
IN TERMS OF INDIA, INDIA HAS MADE A BIG, BIG COMMITMENT IN TERMS OF 450 GIG WATTS OF RENEW BLS BY 2030.
THAT IS REALLY A BIG COMMITMENT.
AND OF COURSE WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IS THAT THOSE POLICY COMMITMENTS ARE REFLECTED IN THE EMISSION REDUCTION TARGETS THEY SET OUT.
WELL, YOU HAVE YOUR WORK CUT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT.
> RISING SEA LEVELS WILL PUT OUR COASTAL TOWNS AND CITIES AND COMMUNITIES IN RISK AS WELL.
JUST LAST WEEK, EXPERTS WASHED THAT LAGOS IN NIGERIA, HOME TO 24 MILLION PEOPLE COULD BE UNLIVABLE BY THE END OF THE CENTURY THANKS TO EXTREME FLOODING AND RISING WATERS.
SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
KATE IS A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT TRYING TO FIND ONE, SHE TOLD THE 'NEW YORKER' WE HAVE TO HIT THE RESET BUTTON IF WE WANT NATURE TO COME BACK.
THERE IS NO MORE NATURAL NATURE.
NOW IT IS A MATTER OF DESIGN SH.
WHAT DOES SHE MEAN?
WE'LL ASK HER.
KATE OHFF THOSE SEEM TO BE PRETTY DIFFICULT SENTENCES TO UNDERSTAND AND INTERNALIZE.
'THERE IS NO MORE NATURAL NATURE.'
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
WELL I GUESS IN THIS LAST CENTURY WHEN WE'VE BUILT AN ECONOMY BASED ON THE EXTRACTION OF FOSSIL FUELS AND DECIMATION OF OUR NATURAL LANDS, WE HAVE, WE ARE FACING NOW A MORE INTENSE FUTURE.
AND WE'VE ALSO AT THE SAME TIME LOST THIS SORT OF PROTECTIVE BENEFIT OF THE WETLANDS, FORESTS, CORAL REEVES, OYSTER REEFS, MANGROVES, ALL OF THESE SYSTEMS THAT ONCE PROTECTED US.
SO IN MY VIEW, AND I'M REALLY I.
IN MY VIEW IT IS REALLY TIME FOR A BROAD INVESTMENT IN THE NATURAL SYSTEMS AND THE AND ANTICIPATE THESE RISKS OF A FUTURE.
AND OF COURSE LIVING IN MANHATTAN AND THE NEW YORK AREA.
AND YOU HAVE DESIGNED A WHOLE SORT OF ECO SYSTEM AROUND STATEN ISLAND.
SO LIVING BREAK WATERS.
AND YOU HAVE PROVIDE SOME PICTURES.
SO I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO WALK US THROUGH WHAT LOOKS LIKE A REALLY INTERESTING PROJECT.? TO BE SUBMERGED.D REEF STREETS TELL US ABOUT THIS FIRST PICTURE.
RIGHT.
WELL, AS YOUR VIEWERS PROBABLY WILL REMEMBER, THE NEW YORK REGION, NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY REGION WAS HIT INCREDIBLY HARD BY SUPER STORM SANDY IN 2012.
SO THIS PROJECT 'LIVING BREAK WATERS WAS INVESTMENT INTO THE STRUCTURE AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE TO INVESTIGATE THE LANDSCAPES WE NEED FOR THE WHOLE LITANY OF RISKS THAT WE'LL BEFA.
SO THE LIVING BREAK WATERS PROJECT WHICH IS IN RARITAN BAY AND JUST OFF THE SHORE OF STATEN ISLAND IS ESSENTIALLY A HALF MILE LINEAR NECKLACE OF BREAK WATERS, NEAR SHORE BREAK WATERS THAT ARE CONSTRUCTED FROM A COMBINATION OF CONCRETE AND ECOLOGICAL UNITS.
AND WHAT THEY DO IS THEY CALM THE WATER.
THEY SORT OF REBUILD ON SHORE BEACHES.
THEY REDUCE EROSION.
AND THEY KIND OF BRING BACK THAT PROTECTIVE LAYERED ECO SYSTEM OF REEFS AND BEACHES THAT ONCE REALLY CHARACTERIZED THE COASTAL PROTECTION OF OUR REGION.
IT IS ALSO AN ECOLOGICAL PILOT OF RESTORING THE ECO SYSTEMS.
ROBUST FISH, MOSAIC OF FISH HAS BEEN STAT.
MOSAIC OF UNDER WATER HAS BEEN TAN AT THE AND OYSTER REEVES THAT REALLY HELP TO CLEAN AND CALM THE WATER AND IT IS ALSO A SOCIAL PROJECT OR A COMMUNITY BUILDING PROJECT THAT INVOLVES CITIZEN SIGN SCIENCE, OYSTER EDUCATION, SCIENCE BASED EDUCATION.
A COMBINATION OF PHYSICAL RISK REDUCTION AND BREAK WATERS BUT REBUILDING THE ECO SYSTEM AND INTEGRATING PEOPLE INTO THE PROCESS.
REALLY ABOUT HOW WE ADAPT IN THE NEXT DECADE.
AND ABOUT THIS ONE, YOU SAID IT CAN MITIGATE SURGES DURING STORMS.
ALSO INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW, WHY OYSTERS?
WELL, 'WHY OYSTERS'? IS A GREAT QUESTION.
FIRST I SEE OYSTERS AS SORT OF A ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PARTNERS.
OYSTERS CAN CLEAN AND FILTER TH.
THEY CONGLOMERATE ON THE BREAKWATER STRUCTURES AND HELP TO SLOW THE WATER.
JUST TO BE VERY CLEAR, YOU KNOW, A BIG PART OF THE CLIMATE ADAPTATION IS MOTIVATING PEOPLE TO ACT.
YOU KNOW, YOUR FIRST GUEST AND IN YOUR FIRST SEGMENT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT EMOTIONS THAT WE FEEL AFTER READING THIS IPCC REPORT.
THESE EMOTIONS RANGE FROM FEAR AND SADNESS AND FRUSTRATION BUT ONE EMOTION THAT I REFUSE TO DIG INTO IS DESPAIR.
BECAUSE WE HAVE CREATED THESE CHALLENGES.
BUT WE HAVE THE IMAGINATION AND WE HAVE THE WILL TO BREAKTHROUGH THESE CHALLENGES, IN SHORT THE OYSTERS COMPONENT OF THE PROJECT AND ACTIVE SEEDING OF THE REEF AND OUTREACH TO SCHOOL CHILDREN, THE SCIENCE-BASED EDUCATION.
THIS IS REALLY A TOOL FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND FOR PARTICIPATION.
AND REALLY IS A WAY TO KIND OF BRING PEOPLE INTO A LARGER DISCUSSION ABOUT THE RISKS AND THEIR IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT.
AND FRANKLY, THE PLEASURES AND THE FUTURE PROGRAM OF -- AND A VISION THAT CAN KIND OF BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO MAKE CHANGE IN THEIR IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
SO ACTUALLY, YOU BROUGHT UP THE NOTION OF HOPE AND I WANTED TO READ THIS QUOTE THAT I MIGHT HAVE PLAYED FOR MY LAST GUEST BUT I DIDN'T.
IT IS FROM A CLIMATE SCIENTIST AT NASA.
AS A CLIMATE SCIENTIST, I DON'T HAVE HOPE, I HAVE SOMETHING BETTER.
CERTAINTY.
WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IS CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE.
WE CAN ABSOLUTELY ONE, AVOID THE WORSE, AND TWO, BUILD A BETTER WORLD IN THE PROCESS.
SO THAT IS REALLY SOMETHING TO FOCUS ON IN A DAY LIKE THIS WITH THAT TERRIBLE REPORT THAT'S JUST COME OUT.
YOU ALSO WORK AND HAVE COLLEAGUES IN THE SAME BUSINESS IF YOU LIKE, THE SAME EFFORTS AROUND THE WORLD.
WHAT ARE YOU SEEING THAT'S BEEN TRANSLATED FROM YOUR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THIS REGARD PERHAPS AROUND THE WORLD.
WELL I SEE THIS NOT ONLY JUST THE REEF SYSTEM THAT I JUST DESCRIBED AS BEING SOMETHING THAT'S REPLICABLE BUT REALLY THIS ENTIRE IDEA OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
ECOLOGICAL REBUILDING AND INVESTMENT IN NATURE-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE AND RISK REDUCTION.
IT IS THAT COMBINATION OF ELEMENTS THAT I SEE TO BE HIGHLY REPLICABLE AROUND THE WORLD AND I ALSO TEACH URBAN DESIGN AT COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY AND KATE MARVEL IS MY COLLEAGUE THERE.
BUT WHAT I'VE SEEN AROUND IN GLOBAL CITIES AROUND THE WORLD IS THAT THIS KIND OF, SORT OF COMBINATION OF FACTORS COULD BE APPLIED IN SO MANY PLACES.
TO BRING PEOPLE A GREATER AWARENESS OF GLOBAL CITY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE IMPACTS OF THAT WE WILL BE ANTICIPATING AND WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW.
FOR EXAMPLE, IN CALCUTTA, A MEGA CITY IN INDIA THAT IS EXPERIENCING, OR NOW IS SLATED TO EXPERIENCE KIND OF EXTREME INUNDATION.
YOU CAN IMAGINE MANGROVE REPLANTING IN THE WETLANDS N VIETNAM AND PLACES AROUND THE WORLD YOU CAN IMAGINE AN INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH IS REALLY DRIVEN BY ECOLOGY AND PEOPLE.
KIND OF COMING TO THE FOREGROUND AND REALLY HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE RISK, ADAPT TO THE RISK AND SORT OF HAVE A ROLE IN SORT OF MITIGATING THAT RISK FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES.
-- TO HOME OF COURSE IS REALLY RELEVANT NOW AND ALL TIMES.
COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED BY THE WORST ASPECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
CERTAINLY IN THE UNITED STATES AND ELSEWHERE.
AND YOU HAVE A PROJECT ABOUT BRIDGING DIVIDES.
YOU HAVE TWO BEAUTIFUL PICTURE SKPIS WANT YOU THAT TALK ME THROUGH THEM.
YOU RAISE THE QUESTION, CAN WE DO WITH LANDSCAPE WHAT WE CANNOT DO WITH POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OR THE INTERNET?
CAN WE MEND THINGS ECOLOGICALLY AND ALSO REPAIR THE SOCIAL WORLD?
YOU OBVIOUSLY THINK YES.
TELL US HOW.
WE HAVE A PROJECT IN THE ATLANTA METRO REGION CALLED THE CHATTOHOOCHEE RIVER LANDS AND A BLUEWAY AND GREENWAY ADVANCING INVESTING IN RIVER ACCESS AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN TRADITIONALLY UNDERSERVED BY INVESTMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
WE'RE ALSO HELPING TO REBUILD THE SHORELINE AND RIVER ECOLOGIES ALONG THE CHATTOHOOCHEE.
AND IT IS JUST A PROJECT THAT TALKS TO THE FUTURE AND THE INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE NEED TO BE MAKING IN THE AMERICAN CONTEXT.
WE HAVE A BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL BEING DISCUSSED RIGHT NOW.
LET'S NOT SPEND OUR MONEY ON JUST WIDENING HIGHWAYS.
LET'S THINK ABOUT THE PROJECTS THAT WILL CONNECT US LITERALLY, PHYSICALLY LIKE IN THE CASE OF THE CHATTOHOOCHEE RIVER LANDS THROUGH BIKEWAYS AND GREENWAYS THAT WILL HELP REBUILD ECO SYSTEMS.
AND ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS A PROJECT IN MEMPHIS CALLED TOMLY PARK, WHICH IS JUST ONE 30-ACRE STRETCH OF PARKLANDS NEAR DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS.
BUT IT IS REALLY CONCEIVED OF AS PART OF A NETWORK OF PARKS THAT KNIT THE CITY BACK TOGETHER AND HIT THE RESIT BUTTON ON ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
THESE ARE THE KIND OF PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT GOING TO SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE.
WE TRULY NEED TO DECARBONIZE OUR ECONOMY TO HIT THAT.
BUT AS WE SEE FROM IPCC, THE WARMING AND THE CHANGES ARE BAKED IN.
SO WE MUST ADAPT.
SO LET'S ADAPT AND HAVE A VERY FORD-LOOKING VISIONARY STANCE.
AND LET'S THINK ABOUT REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE.
REBUILD YOUR COMMUNITIES AND REBUILD THE ECO SYSTEMS THAT HAVE SUSTAINED US FOR SO LONG.
IT IS TIME TO DO THAT NOW.
SO DO YOU THINK THEN THAT NEW YORKER ARTICLE WHICH CALLED ONE OF YOUR OYSTER IDEAS HOKEY AT THE TIME, THAT YOU ARE HAVING THE LAST LAUGH OR THE LAST PIECE OF, YOU KNOW, CLIMATE RESPONSIBILITY?
WELL, AS I SAID IN THE NEW YORKER PIECE, IT CERTAINLY WAS MOTIVATING IN 2010 TO HAVE THE INITIATIVE DISMISSED LIKE THAT.
BUT MY RESPONSE WAS LIKE, THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING.
THAT THERE IS A COMMUNITY UPWELLING AND A COMMUNITY UPRISING IN TERMS OF A DESIRE TO RECONNECT WITH OUR WATER BODIES, TO DEVELOP IN A MORE SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT WAY, TO INTEGRATE THE RESTORATION OF OUR WATERWAYS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT.
SO I FOUND THAT COMMENT TO BE VERY MOTIVATING.
BUT WE'RE GOING INTO CONSTRUCTION FOR THE LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT IN TWO WEEKS.
SO I FEEL LIKE HAVING THAT GROUNDBREAKING OR WATER BREAKING, IN TWO WEEKS TIME, I WILL FEEL VERY SATISFIED.
> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND GOOD LUCK.
> NOW, HOW MANY E-MAILS HAVE YOU RECEIVED TODAY?
AND ARE YOU ON MULTIPLE WHATSAPP GROUPS?
DO YOU FEEL SOMETIMES YOUR BRAIN IS IN MELT DOWN TRYING TO COPE WITH IT ALL?
OUR NEXT GUEST WANTS US TO RADICALLY CHANGE THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE IN THE WORKPLACE.
WE GO ON A JOURNEY THROUGH A WORLD WITHOUT E-MAIL.
CAL NEWPORT THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
MY PLEASURE.
LET'S START WITH THE BIG BASIC QUESTION.
A WORLD WITHOUT E-MAIL.
WHY?
WELL, I'M USING A SHORTHAND WHEN I SAY A WORLD WITHOUT E-MAIL.
WHAT I REALLY MEAN IS A WORLD WITHOUT THESE STYLE OF COLLABORATION THAT E-MAIL MADE POSSIBLE.
WHICH I CALL THE HYPERACTIVE HIVE MIND AND IT IS AN APPROACH TO WORK WHICH WE FIGURE MOST THINGS OUT ON THE FLY WITH BACK AND FORTH AD HOC MESSAGING.
MY ARGUMENT IS THAT THIS APPROACH TO COLLABORATION HAS BEEN A PRODUCTIVITY DISASTER BUT ALSO A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISASTER FOR --.
LET'S BREAK THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
THE PRODUCTIVITY DISASTER PART.
WHY?
IF WE'RE WORKING MOST THINGS OUT AD HOC ON THE FLY WITH MESSAGING, WHAT HAPPENS IS WE END UP WITH MANY DIFFERENT ASYNCHRONOUS BACK AND FORTH CONVERSATIONS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME.
WE CANNOT LET THEM LINGER TOO MUCH.
IF WE DELAY TOO LONG ANSWERING ONE OF THESE CONVERSATIONS, THINGS GET SLOWED DOWN SO WE HAVE TO CHECK INBOXES OR SLACK OR TEAMS OR WHATEVER TOOL WE'RE USING TO COMMUNITY.
WE HAVE TO CHECK IT ALL THE TIME.
THAT'S A DISASTER BECAUSE OUR BRAINS CAN'T CONTEXT SWITCH THAT MUCH.
IF WE END UP HAVING TO CHECK AN INBOX OR CHAT ONCE EVERY SIX MINUTES WHICH WAS ABOUT AVERAGE RIGHT NOW, OUR BRAINS BASICALLY MELT DOWN.
IT TAKES US 10 OR 15 MINUTES IN REALITY TO COMPLETELY CHANGE OUR FOCUS FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER.
SO IT PUTS US IN THIS PERSISTENT STATE OF SELF-IMPOSED REDUCED COGNITIVE CAPACITY WHERE QUITE LITERALLY MAKING OURSELVES DUMBER ACCIDENTALLY BY WORKING THIS WAY.
WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD ABOUT COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING?
AND WHY IS IT TWISTED IN THIS WAY WHERE WHAT IS NEGATIVE ABOUT THE HYPERACTIVE HIVE MIND?
IT IS TON SCHEDULED NATURE OF THE COMMUNICATION.
SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, I HAVE SOMETHING LIKE TWO DOZEN DIFFERENT BACK AND FORTH ASYNCHRONOUS INTERACTIONS HAPPENING VIA E-MAIL.
OVER HERE TRYING SCHEDULE A MEETING FOR THE CLIENT.
OVER HERE TRYING TO EDIT A DECK.
OVER HERE TRYING TO FIGURE A NEW STRATEGY, THEME OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
EACH HAVE OF THESE HAVE MESSAGES COMING BACK AND FORTH UNSCHEDULED.
I SENT A MESSAGE AT SOME POINT.
SOMEONE WILL RESPOND TO IT.
I CAN'T REALLY IGNORE THE MESSAGES BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE CLIENT MEETING DATE BY THE END OF THE DAY BECAUSE HE'S COMING TOMORROW.
AO I HAVE TO KEEP CHECKING INBOXES TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT MESSAGE SO I CAN SEND IT BACK.
IF YOU SCALE THIS OVER TWO DOZEN CONVERSATIONS NOW I HAVE CONSTANTLY TO SCALE IT.
IF YOU WANT COLLABORATION ON A GROUP ON SOMETHING, PUT A I SIDE PEOPLE, GET THE GROUP TOGETHER AND DO GROUP COLLABORATION.
THAT IS FANTASTIC.
YOU WILL GET A LOT DONE BUT IT IS SCHEDULED.
YOU KNOW WHEN THE WORK IS HAPPENING AND YOU ARE GIVING IT YOUR FULL ATTENTION WHEN YOU CAN.
THE THING WE HAVE TO AVOID IS THE NEED TO ALWAYS BE CHECKING BECAUSE WE NEVER KNOW WHEN THE NEXT MESSAGE IS GOING COME.
BUT WHEN IT DOES WE HAVE TO ANSWER IT RIGHT AWAY.
IS SOME OF THIS ACTION AND REACTION THAT WE TAKE IN THE WORKPLACE REPLY, REPLY ALL PERFORMATIVE?
ARE WE DOING THIS BECAUSE WE THINK IT'S SORT OF LIKE THE EQUIVALENT OF MAKING SURE THE BOSS SEES THAT I'M WORKING?
THERE IS A PERFORMATIVE ASPECT OF THE HYPERACTIVE HIVE MIND.
IF THIS IS THE WAY WORK HAPPENS, IT OPENS THE DOOR TO THE SORT OF PERFORMATIVE SIGNALING OF ACTIVITY, WHICH COMES WITH, I THINK, LOTS OF ISSUES.
BUT ONE THING I'D LIKE TO EMPHASIZE IS THAT IT IS NOT ENTIRELY POMPLTIVE.
SOMETIMES IT'S GET THE REACTION WHICH SAYS NO NO, IF WE CAN JUST CHANGE THE NORMS OR GET PEOPLE TO HAVE BETTER EXPECTATIONS OF SEND SMARTER E-MAILS WE'D BE FINE.
MY ARGUMENT IS WE CANNOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY REPAIRING OUR RELATIONSHIP TO OUR INBOXES.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO STOP THE IB BOXES FROM GETTING SO FULL INTHS CHANGING UNDERAPPLYING PROCESSES.
WE DON'T JUST SEND E-MAILS TO SCHEDULE CLIENT MEETINGS.
WE USE THIS SYSTEM.
WE DON'T JUST ROCK AND ROLL ON SLACK WHEN TRYING TO UP WITH A NEW THEME FOR MARKETING CAMPAIGN.
IT IS MONDAY MORNINGS, FROM 9:00-9:30 AND WE DO IN THIS CONFERENCE ROOM AND IT IS HIGHLY STRUCTURED AND OFF THE WRITE THE MEMO THE WEEKEND BEFORE SO E CAN ALL READ IT.
WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY REPLACE THE HIVE MIND, WITH A SPECIFIC ALTERNATIVE.
THIS IS A MULTI BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY TRYING TO FIGURE HOW TO GET OFFICES TO COMMUNICATE EFFICIENTLY.
YOU HAVE GOT SO MANY DIFFERENT PLAYERS IN IT.
YOU HAVE GOT MICROSOFT, THE PEOPLE WHO MADE E-MAIL YOU UBIQUITOUS THROW THE OFFICE APPLICATION.
SLACK.
MICROSOFT HAS TEAMS.
THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO IT.
WHAT ARE THEY GETTING WRONG?
WHAT ARE THEY MISSING?
BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO BE GOING AFTER E-MAIL SAYING E-MAIL WASN'T SO EFFICIENT BUT CHATTING ALMOST LIKE TEXTING BACK AND FORTH IS.
DOES THAT SOLVE ANYTHING?
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS.
SO WE FELL INTO THIS HYPERACTIVE HIVE MIND WORKLOAD BASICALLY BY DEFAULT.
ONCE WE STARTED WORKING THIS WAY WE REALIZED THERE ARE SHORTCOMINGS WITH EMAIL AS A TOOL IF THE WAY WE'RE GOING TO COLLABORATE IS BACK AND FORTH AD HOC MESSAGES.
SO WE INVENTED NEW TOOLS LIKE SLACK AND TEAMS THAT IMPLEMENTED THE HYPERACTIVE HIVE MIND BETTER.
THAT'S WHY PEOPLE HAVE A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE TOOLS.
THIS IS THE WAY YOU ARE GOING COLLABORATE.
IT IS A SMOOTHER TOOL BUT ON THE OTHER HAND WE KEEP THIS WAY OF COLLABORATING.
LOT OF PEOPLE RIGHT NOW OKAY I GUESS WE'LL JUST STIPULATE HOW WE'RE GOING WORK AND ONCE WE DO THAT WE CAN SAY WHAT'S THE BEST TOOL AND SURE SLACK IS PROBABLY BETTER THAN AN OLD E-MAIL CLIENT.
BUT MY ARGUMENT IS THAT THAT WAY OF COLLABORATION ITSELF IS CAUSING A LOT OF TROUBLE.
WE NEED TO THINK MUCH BIGGER.
NOT HOW DO WE DO THIS FASTER BUT HOW DO WE REPLACE THIS WHOLE WAY OF COLLABORATING ALL TOGETHER.
THIS CONVERSATION IS MORE AROUND TODAY BECAUSE WE ARE FACING THE POTENTIAL OF A REMOTE WORKING ENVIRONMENT BEING EXTENDED OUT INTO LONGER FUTURES.
DEPENDING ON THE INDUSTRY, DEPENDING ON WHAT CITY YOU WORK IN, DEPENDING ON WHAT KIND OF COMPANY YOU WORK N PEOPLE ARE RETHINKING, WELL, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY FOR AN EMPLOYEE TO WORK.
AND THEN WHAT ARE THE TOOLS THAT CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN?
WELL ULTIMATELY THERE HAVE BEEN MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE RESEARCHED WHAT THE MIX SHOULD BE.
WHAT DID YOU FIND WHEN YOU WERE WRITING THIS BOOK.
WELL SOMETHING THAT BECAME CLEAR IS THAT THE HYPERACTIVE HIVE MIND IS NOT VERY COMPATIBLE WITH FULLY REMOTE.
IF YOU LOOK AT KNOWLEDGE SECTOR COMPANIES THAT ARE RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL WITH REMOTE WORK THE UNIFYING FACTOR IS THEY HAVE MUCH MORE STRUCTURED APPROACHES HOW THEY COLLABORATE.
HOW THEY KEEP TRACK OF WHO IS WORKING ON WHAT AND --. IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT STRUCTURE WHEN EVERYONE IS REREMOTE AND EVERYTHING IS ABSTRACTIONS.
JUST A SLACK HANDLE OR E-MAIL ADDRESS AND COMMUNICATION IS JUST FLYING BACK AND FORTH, THINGS SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL.
I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THAT.
OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF.
LOT OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS FOUND THEMSELVES IN BACK-TO-BACK TO BACK-TO-BACK ZOOM TRYING TO DO E-MAIL AND TEAMS CHATS SIMULTANEOUSLY AND GETTING BASICALLY NO ACTUAL WORK DONE.
REMOTE WORK REQUIRES STRUCTURE.
IVE THINK THERE IS NO WAY AROUND THAT.
GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF SOME GOOD BEHAVIORS AND GOOD STRUCTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURES THAT COMPANIES HAVE PUT INTO PLACE.
WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING TO TRY TO NOT JUST MAXIMIZE PRODUCTIVITY BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST OTHER?E AND HUMANE WITH EACH
ONE EXAMPLE OF A SECTOR WITHIN KNOWLEDGE WORK THAT HAS TRADITIONALLY HAD LOT OF SUCCESS WITH REMOTE WORK, FOR EXAMPLE, IS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
AND WHY?
BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALREADY PUT IN PLACE USUALLY PRETTY STRUCTURED MODES OF COLLABORATION.
MOST OF THESE SHOPS ARE USING WHAT ARE KNOWN AS AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES.
THEY HAVE A SHARED BOARD WHERE EVERY TASK IS LISTED.
YOU KNOW WHO IS WORKING ON WHAT.
A HIGHLY STRUCTURED MORNING MEETING WHERE ALL OF THE COMMUNICATION ABOUT THE WORK HAPPENS.
THEY ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT HOW MUCH STUFF IS ON YOUR PLATE AT THE SAME TIME.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A TYPE OF WORK WHICH THEY CAN GO REMOTE OR NOT REMOTE WITHOUT MUCH ISSUES.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE I FOUND IN MY RESEARCH ARE THESE SO CALLED ROW COMPANIES, R-O-W-E WHICH STANDS FOR RESULTS ONLY WORK ENVIRONMENT.
JUST CLEARLY IDENTIFY WHO IS WHAT I'M WORKING ON.
HERE IS WHEN I'M GOING THE GET IT DONE AND WHEN WE NEED TO COMMUNITY.
REMOTE WITH NO ISSUED ALL.
YOU TALK IN THE BOOK ABOUT DEEP WORK.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT?
DEEP WORK IS WHERE YOU ARE ABLE TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING COGNITIVELY DEMANDING WITHOUT CONTEXT.
SO YOU CAN GIVE IT YOUR FULL ATTENTION WITHOUT HAVING TO CHECK AN INBOOKS EVERY FIVE MINUTES OR LOOKING AT SLACK OR LOOKALITY YOUR PHOBE.
WHEN YOU ARE IN A STATE OF DEEP WORK AND GIVING SOMETHING YOUR FULL UNBROKEN CONCENTRATION YOU GET A LOT MORE OUT OF YOUR BRAI.
SHIFTING.ATTENTION AND CONTEXT AND ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS I MADE IN THE BOOK I WROTE ABOUT DEEP WORK IS THAT THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY VALUABLE ACTIVITY.
WE SHOULD BE PRIORITIZING AND SUPPORTING IT BUT WE DON'T AND IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.
AND WHY IS THAT IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE HYPERACTIVE HIVE MIND DEMANDS THAT BECONSTANTLY CHECK ALL THESE INBOXES.
AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT DEEP THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS LUXURY.
I REMEMBER READING A LONG TIME AGO -- SAID HE WOULD ONLY CHECK E-MAIL TWICE A DAY.
THAT MUST BE NICE.
YOU ARE THE CEO.
YOU ARE THE BOSS AT THE TIME NETSCAPE.
YOU CAN AFFORD DO THAT.
BAWL BUT ALL OF YOUR SUBORDINATES OR PEOPLE WHO REPORT, THEY CAN'T AFFORD DO THAT.
OR IF I'M THE LOWEST LEVEL PERSON IN AN ORGANIZATION I CAN'T AFFORD NOD TO BE ON E-MAIL BECAUSE MY BOSS OR?
SOME OTHER COLLEAGUE MIGHT ASKS.
SAY YOU ARE IN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT SUPPORT ROLE.
YOU ARE NOT SPENDING FOUR HOURS AT A TIME WORKING ON ONE THING BUT WE'D LIKE TO SET THINGS SO YOU CAN DO ONE THING AT A TIME.
SAY YOU WERE A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER, THE ONE THING YOU WERE DOING MIGHT BE WRITING A TRICKY ALGORITHM SO IT MIGHT MEAN HOURS OF WORK IN A ROW BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO SOMETHING ELSE.
SO THE DURATIONS DIFFER BUT CLEAR.NEUROSCIENCE IS PRETTYNK HUMANS DO BEST WHEN THEY DO ONE.
IS THERE SOMETHING CHANGING ABOUT HOW WE PERCEIVE OUR RELATIONSHIP TO WORK?
FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, THE PANDEMIC FORCED THEM TO SEE THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD COMPROMISED AND SACRIFICED IN ORDER TO GO TO THE OFFICE.
PERHAPS THIS IS AGAIN WHITE COLLAR WORKERS WHO ARE PRIVILEGED ENOUGH TO TAKE THIS TIME TO DO THIS, THEY WERE STARTING TO REFLECT ON WHY AM I DOING THIS?
AND WE HAVE ALSO A KIND OF GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCE HERE IN HOW YOUNGER PEOPLE PERCEIVE THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO WORK THAN OLDER PEOPLE.
I THINK THERE IS DEFINITELY A DISRUPTION OCCURRING AND THE PANDEMIC PUSHING IT.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT SORT OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS, GENERICALLY EDUCATED KNOWLEDGE WORKERS SO WORKERS WHO CAN DO MANY TYPES OF JOBS.
NOT SOMEONE TRAINED IN ONE SPECIFIC SKILL.
WE'RE SEEING A SHUFFLING AND DOWN SIZING SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING.
THE SHUFFLING IS PEOPLE CHANGING LOCATIONS AND JOBS.
AND DOWN SIZING IS PEOPLE ACTUALLY LITERALLY REDUCING THE FOOTPRINT OF PAID EMPLOYMENT IN.
MAYBE IF I LIVED SOMEWHERE CHEAPER, I DON'T HAVE TO WORK AS HARD AT ANY JOB.
I THINK THINK KNOWLEDGE WORK IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THESE TYPE OF DISRUPTIONS BECAUSE UNLIKE OTHER TYPES OF LABOR IT IS VERY AMBIGUOUS.
WE'RE IN AN OFFICE AND THERE IS A COMPUTER AND DOING E-MAIL ALL DAY AND IT IS ACTUALLY HARD TO POINT AT SOMETIMES, I MADE THAT OR I DID THAT.
OR HERE'S THE LOCOMOTIVE MY TEAM TURNED OFF.
IN THE ABSENCE IT IS SORT OF --. FLURRY OF SLACK AND POWERPOINT.
AND BECAUSE IT IS SO AMBIGUOUS, IT IS REALLY RIPE FOR DISRUPTION WHEN SOMETHING CHANGES AND KNOCKS US OUT OF OUR CULTURAL CONVENTIONS ABOUT WORK AND WE SAY HOW MUCH OF THIS DO I WANTT?
HOW MUCH OF MY LIFE DO I WANT TO SPEND -- CHECKING MY SLACK CHANNEL.
WHAT DO I REALLY DO FOR A JOB HERE?
I WHAT DO I REALLY DO FOR A -- I THINK LOT OF REFLECTION IS HAPPENING AND IN PART BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT YET DONE THE HARD WORK OF KNOWLEDGE WORK ACTUALLY GETTING BETTER IN DEFINING WORK, HAVING GOOD METRICS, STRUCTURING WORK MAKING IT SOMETHING MORE CRAFT ORIENTED MORE DEEP WORK.
WE ALLOW IT TO BE AMBIGUOUS AND HYPERACTIVE AND BACK AND FORTH COMMUNICATION THAT.
AS TYPE OF WORK MORE PRONE TOHU.
HOW DO WE DEREESE RELIANCE O.
WHERE WE'RE SPENDING SO MUCH OF IT USING SO MUCH OF IT TO MANAGE RELATIONSHIPS VIRTUALLY INSTEAD OF JUST BEING PRODUCTIVE.
WELL, YES.
NOW WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE PERSONAL ASPECT OF TECHNOLOGY AND THINGS GET A LITTLE BIT TRICKIER.
SO ONE THING I HAVE HEARD FROM COMPANIES DURING THE REMOTE WORK ASPECT OF THE PANDEMIC ARE SAYING YEAH THERE IS THIS PRODUCTIVITY HIT FROM BEING ON SLACK OR E-MAIL ALL DAY BUT AS A SIDE EFFECT WE ARE GETTING MORE.
WE'D OTHERWISE BE ISOLATED.
AND TYPICALLY MY RESPONSE IS SEPARATE THE TWO GOALS.
WE HAVE THE GOAL OF HOW WE COLLABORATE.
LET'S FIND THE MOST EXTENDIVE WAY TO COLLABORATE AND WE HAVE THIS OTHER GOAL OF HOW DO WE FOSTER CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WHILE REMOTE.
SOLVE THAT PROBLEM SEPARATELY AND DIRECTLY.
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO DO AS AN ORGANIZATION KEEP PEOPLE FEEL CONNECTIVITY.
DON'T MIX THOSE TWO THINGS.
WE'RE GOING TO BE HARDLY CONNECTIVE.SO WE CAN BE MORE I'M SURE WE CAN FIND TO WAY TO DO BOTH.
AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGIES IN OUR SOCIAL LIFE.
IT'S ALL VERY IMPORTANT FOR CONNECTING THE PEOPLE WE JUST WE HAVE KNOW WHY WE'RE DEPLOYING IT.
I WANTED TO TALK TO MY UNCLE ON A REGULAR BASIS IS A GREAT USE OF ZOOM BUT I'M GOING TO USE TWITTER AS A WAY TO ESCAPE FEELINGS OF DREAD OR NUMB MYSELF IS A BAD USE OF TECHNOLOGY.
WE HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTIONS WHAT AM I TRYING DO, HOW DO I USE THE TOOLS TO ACCOMPLISH IT.
IS THIS GOING TO BE A FLASH IN THE PAN THIS IDEA WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO WORK REMOTELY?
YOU ALREADY SEE CERTAIN COMPANIES PULLING VERY HARD TO TRY AND GET THEIR EMPLOYEES TO ALL COME BACK TO THE BUILDING.
MY PREDICTION IS, IF YOUR COMPANY DOES NOT REVAMP HOW YOU ACTUALLY COLLABORATE, SO I THINK THAT IS ARE WHERE THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE IS RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE ALREADY SEEING THIS AT COMPANIES.
WE'RE SEEING THIS APPLE MOVING BACK TO YOU NEED TO BE HERE TWO DAYS A WEEK OR THREE.
WE CANNOT CHANGE THE WAY WORK HAPPENS JUST WITH MEMOS, JUST WITH SAYING HERE IS OUR NEW RULE FOR HOW WE'RE GOING TO WORK.
YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO CHANGE THE CULTURE OF WORK.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TOP HAPPEN.
FOR ME IT COMES DOWN TO HOW MANY MOTIVATED ENOUGH TO GO THROUGH THE PAIN OF CHANGING FUNDAMENTALLY HOW THEY WORK TO GET AWAY FROM THE CONVENIENCE OO EFFECTIVE.MORE STRUCTURED AND THOSE THAT DO WILL I THINK SUSTAIN LARGE AMOUNTS OF REMOTE WORK.
AND THOSE THAT DON'T I DON'T THINK CAN.
GOING THROUGH THE PAIN RIGHTRE NOW.
SO IT IS GOING TO BE VERY INTERESTING TO OBSERVE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS.
THE BOOK IS 'WORLD WITHOUT E-MAIL.'
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE ON.
AND FINALLY TONIGHT.
HIS DEATH FROM AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE IN 2016 SHOOK THE WORLD AND SHOOK HIS FANS.
BUT NOW THE MUSICAL GENIUS KNOWN AS PRINCE IS SPEAKING TO US AGAIN FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE.
WELL, IT IS A WHOLE NEW ALBUM GARNERING GREAT REVIEWS SINCE ITS RELEASE OVER THE WEEKEND.
RECORDED BACK IN 2010, WELCOME TO AMERICA BLENDS LYRICISM AND CYNICISM AS PRINCE TAKES ON THE ISSUES OF HIS TIME AND OUR TIME.
RACISM.
POLITICAL CORRUPTION, DIVISION, MISINFORMATION.
HERE'S A CLIP.
♪♪♪ WELCOME TO AMERICA ♪♪♪ WELCOME ♪♪♪ HOPE AND CHANGE ♪♪♪ EVERYTHING TAKES FOREVER ♪♪♪ THE TRUTH IS THE NEW MINORITY ♪♪♪ TRUTH ♪♪♪ AH, WELCOME TO AMERICA.
INTERESTING THE ALBUM WAS WRITTEN DURING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST TERM.
VAN JONES BECAME A CLOSE FRIEND AND ADVISER TO PRINCE.
VAN, I KNOW YOU'RE SUPER COOL.
WE ALL DO.
HOW DOES A WHITE HOUSE OPERATIVE AND ADVISER BECOME SO CLOSE WITH PRINCE.
I HAVE A LOT OF BEST FRIENDS.
I WAS HAPPY TO END UP IN THE MIX.
HE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE WORK WE WERE DOING IN OAKLAND AND WE WOUND UP FUNDING ALL THAT WORK.
THAT GOT ME IN THE WHITE HOUSE HELPING OBAMA WITH THAT STUFF.
WHEN I LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE BS PRINCE SAVED MY LIFE.
I LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER FIRE.
THE RIGHT WING WAS COMING AFTER ME, AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO PRINCE PULLED ME IN AND CHANGED MY LIFE.
I NEVER KNEW THAT THIS ALBUM EXISTED, EVEN THOUGH HE MUST HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT WHILE WE WERE TOGETHER.
THAT'S PRINCE.
WELL THAT'S REALLY -- THAT'S AN AMAZING -- THAT'S AMAZING WHAT YOU SAID.
A, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE'D BEEN SO INSTRUCTIVE IN HELPING, YOU KNOW, WITH THOSE PROJECTS YOUHA.
AND HOW CLOSELY HE HAD HELPED YOU.
BUT I WANT TO ASK YOU.
YOU PROBABLY HEARD THE LITTLE CLIP WE PLAYED WHERE HE SAYS 'HOPE AND CHANGE, EVERYTHING TAKES FOREVER, THE TRUTH IS A NEW MINORITY OR WELCOME TO AMERICA.'
I'M GOING TO ASK YOU BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE CRITICS HAVE SAID SOME OF THE WORDS LOOK LIKE -- YOU KNOW THEY REFLECT A LITTLE BIT OF A DISILLUSION WITH THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
I KNOW IT WAS EARLY IN THE ADMINISTRATION.
BUT WHAT WOULD YOUR REACTION TO THAT BE?
WELL, I THINK THAT PRINCE WANTED MORE FROM ALL HUMANITY.
NOT JUST THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
I THINK THAT MAKES IT TOO SMALL.
I THINK THAT PRINCE WAS PROBABLY LITERALLY 30 OR 40 YEARS AHEAD OF HIS TIME.
AND HE HAD THE PAIN AND THE FRUSTRATION THAT COMES WITH THAT.
DON'T FORGET HE WAS -- HE ANDDAT THEIR MUSIC ON THE INTERNET IN THE 1990s WHEN PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE INTERNET WAS AND HE ALREADY HAD IN HIS MIND D A TITLE OR SPOTIFY OR STREAMING.
IT DIDN'T EXIST.
SO HE'S LIVING IN THIS CONSTANT STATE OF BEING LITERALLY DECADES AHEAD ON RACE, DECADES AHEAD ON GENDER, ON SEXUALITY, ON DEMOCRACY, DECADES AHEAD ON EVERYTHING.
SO I WOULDN'T REDUCE IT TO SOMETHING ABOUT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
HE JUST WANTED HUMANITY TO BE BETTER THAN WE'VE SHOWN UP AS SO FAR.
I WANT TO PLAY ANOTHER CLIP.
AND IT IS LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE SLAVE.
THESE OBVIOUSLY ALSO PROPHETIC LYRICS AND OF COURSE HE WROTE THIS BEFORE SO MANY OF THE NAMES THAT WE'VE COME TO MEMORIALIZE.
SO MANY BLACK MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNJUSTLY KILLED.
HE WROTE THEM BEFORE GEORGE FLOYD AND TRAYVON MARTIN.
LET'S JUST PLAY THIS.
♪♪♪ GETS WORSE ♪♪♪ HOME OF THE FREE ♪♪♪ HOME OF THE BRAVE.
OOPS, I MEAN LAND OF THE FREE.
♪♪♪ HOME OF THE SLAVE ♪♪♪ GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES ♪♪♪ WELCOME TO AMERICA ♪♪♪ WELCOME TO THE BIG SHOW ♪♪♪ EVEN'S LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ♪♪♪ AND THERE AIN'T NO PLACE TO GO.
> OOPS, I MEAN LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE SLAVE.
IT IS PRETTY -- IT GETS RIGHT INTO YOUR SOLAR PLEXUS THAT.
YEAH.
WELL THE WHOLE ALBUM IS LIKE THAT.
AGAIN, HE WAS SO FAR AHEAD OF THE TIMES HE COULD -- THINK ABOUT THIS.
HE CREATED THIS ALBUM.
IT IS PERFECT.
EVERY SONG IS GREAT.
HE'S GOT THE HOOKY STUFF.
HE'S GOT THE SEXY STUFF.
HE'S GOT THE POLITICAL STUFF.
AND HE JUST STICKS IT IN A DRAWER.
JUST NEVER EVEN RELEASES IT AND THE VAULT IS FULL OF STUFF LIKE THAT.
HE COULD HAVE PUT THAT OUT AT THE TIME AND IT WOULD HAVE MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE BUT NOW IT COMES OUT TEN YEARS LATER AND MAKES AN EVEN BIGGER DIFFERENCE AND HITS EVEN HARDER.
THAT IS THE GENIUS OF PRINCE.
PEOPLE TALK ABOUT PRINCE AS A MUSICAL GENIUS.
THAT IS TOO SMALL.
HE HAD A GENIUS FOR HUMANITY, A GENIUS FOR PEOPLE THAT WAS SO POWERFUL THAT IT COULD ONLY BE EXPRESSED MUSICALLY.
LOT OF PEOPLE CAN PLAY LOT OF INSTRUMENTS.
THERE IS ONLY ONE PRINCE.
LET ME ASK YOU.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE IS ALWAYS LOTS OF DISCUSSION ABOUT WHEN SOMEBODY' DIED AND THEN A HUGE PIECE OF THEIR WORK IS PUT OUT.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHY, BY WHO -- MAYBE Y'ALL DO BUT DO YOU HAVE ETHICAL QUALMS ABOUT THAT?
DO YOU THINK HE WOULD HAVE WANT IT TO COME OUT?
YEAH, THE THING IS PRINCE PUT IT IN THE VAULT FOR A REASON.
HE DIDN'T PUT IT IN THE TRASH CAN OR SHREDDER.
HE PUT ITTED IN VAULT AND HE SAID HIMSELF THEY WILL STILL BE GOING IN IN 50 YEARS AND PULLING IT OUT.
AND SOME IS UNBELIEVABLE GOOD AND SOME OF IT NOT THAT GOOD.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS PARTICULAR ALBUM.
YOU CAN'T ARGUE THAT WAS READY GO.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN LITERALLY RELEASED AS IT WAS RECORDED AND AS IT WAS PUT IN A VAULT.
SO YOU CAN'T ARGUE HE DIDN'T EVER WANT THIS TO BE HEARD.
IF YOU LISTEN TO IT, THE GUY HE'S SOME KIND OF MAGIC BECAUSE THIS ALBUM COMES OUT THE YEAR IT NEEDS TO COME OUT EVEN THOUGH IT IS FIVE YEARS AFTER HE DIED.
I KNOW IT IS INCREDIBLE THAT.
AND WE HAVE -- WE HAVE ONE OF HIS SOUND BITES WHEN HE'S TALKING TO AN MTV CRITIC ABOUT THE VAULT.
SO LET'S PLAY THIS.
SOME AMAZING JAZZ WORK.
YOU'D FIND THE BEST, MOST HEADY TRACKS THAT THE REVOLUTION RECORDED.
THE ONES THAT WE THOUGHT WERE TOO FAR GONE BACK IN THE '80s.
YOU WOULD FIND THE MORE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK VERSION OF THE TIME.
YOU WOULD FIND THE REALLY EROTIC PRINCE.
REALLY?
THE REALLY EROTIC SENSUAL PRINCE.
YOU WOULD FIND -- YOU'D FIND THE FUTURE.
THAT'S --
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR PERSONAL REFLECTION ON.
YOU WERE SAYING THAT 'WE DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE IS GOING TO COME OUT' BUT WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THIS AND YOU REMEMBER YOUR FRIENDSHIP, HOW DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE INFLUENCE HE HAD BUT ALSO WOULD HAVE KEPT HAVING HAD HE NOT -- HAD HIS LIFE NOT BEEN CUT SHORT?
YOU KNOW I THINK ABOUT THAT EVERY DAY.
WHAT WOULD HE HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DONALD TRUMP AS PRESIDENT?
WHAT WOULD HE HAVE THOUGHT OF -- YOU KNOW DON'T FORGET HE'S FROM MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA SO TALK ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD AND THAT'S ALL RIGHT THERE.
YOU KNOW, THAT WHOLE THINGD HAPPENED IN HIS BACKYARD.
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE.
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN DOING SOMETHING.
I DON'T KNOW IF HE'D BEEN MARCHING IN A PROTEST.
THAT WASN'T REALLY HIS THING BUT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.
HIS VOICE WOULD HAVE BEEN MASSIVELY A PART OF THIS MOMENT.
HE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE SIGNIFICANT MONEY TO BLACK LIVES MATTER WHENNED STARTED AND PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF THEM.
HE HELPED GREEN FOR ALL, HE WAS UNBELIEVABLE PHILANTHROPIST BUT HE NEVER WANTED TO BE KNOWN.
HE WANTED -- HE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE DOING THE WORK TO GET THE ATTENTION, NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE FUNDING THE WORK.
HE'S VERY DIFFERENT IN THAT REGARD THAN MANY OF HIS PEERS.
I TELL YOU, I HAVE NO IDEA BUT THE WORLD IS A POORER PLACE, A DUMBER PLACE, AND A LESS HAPPY PLACE BECAUSE HE'S NOT HERE TO HELP US THROUGH THE TIMES.
FINALLY I WANT TO ASK YOU A QUESTION BECAUSE THIS HAS COME OUT 10-11 YEARS AFTER HE RECORDED IT.
AND THIS SUMMER, WE'VE SEEN THIS AMAZING HIDDEN TREASURE THAT'S OPINION MADE INTO THIS FABULOUS FILM SUMMER OF SOUL ABOUT THE BIG CONCERT IN HARLEM BACK THEN AND IT IS ALSO THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIN GAY'S FAMOUS PROTEST ALBUM 'WHAT'S GOING ON.'
E GUESS I WANT TO ASK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THOSE TREASURES.
LIKE SUMMER OF SOUL AND THIS ONE OF PRINCE.
DO YOU THINK IT WOULD HAVE HEAD A DIFFERENCE HOW PEOPLE LOOKED AT YOUR COMMUNITY HAD THAM THEY COME OUT EARLIER?
PARTICULARLY I JUST WANT TO ASK ABOUT SUMMER OF SOUL RIGHT NOW.
IT IS HARD TO KNOW BECAUSE LEAK AT THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN DIFFERENT WAYS, DIFFERENT TIMES AND FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES.
AND WHAT I SAY, HOPEFULLY THIS DOESN'T COME OUT THE WRONG WAY.
BUT THERE IS A REPOSITORY OF GENIUS AND MAGIC AND RESILIENCE AND INSIGHT AND PERSPECTIVE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
IN THE UNITED STATES.
THAT IS REALLY SECOND TO NONE.
YOU HAVE KIDS IN KOREA WHO ARE RAPPING AND THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE GOT BLUES AND JAZZ RESTAURANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
THERE IS JUST SOMETHING ABOUT THIS CRUCIBLE THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH AS A COMMUNITY TRYING TO GET AMERICA TO LIVE UP TO ITS BEST IDEALS IN BOTH ITS CONSTITUTION AND ITS BIBLE THAT HAS CREATED SOMETHING.
NO PRESSURE, NO DIAMONDS.
WE GOT A LOT OF DIAMONDS IN THIS COMMUNITY AND I THINK THE MORE PEOPLE LOOK INTO WHO WE ARE, AND WHAT WE'RE ABOUT THE RICHER THET OF RICHES HERE.
SO NO PRESSURE, NO DIAMOND.
THIS IS JUST A NICE SUMMER SONG.
'HOT SUMMER.'
♪♪♪ ANYBODY CLOSE ENOUGH TO HEAR ♪♪♪ KNOWS WHAT WE'VE BEEN LISTENING TO ALL YEAR ♪♪♪ THESE ARE THE THINGS WHERE PEOPLE TOLD ME FEEL ♪♪♪ AS LONG AS I GOT YOUR EAR ♪♪♪ I THINK IT'S GONNA BE ♪♪♪ HOT SUMMER ♪♪♪ HOT SUMMER, YEAH ♪♪♪ JUST WAIT AND SEE ♪♪♪ HOT SUMMER ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ HOT SUMMER ♪♪♪ AS LONG AS YOU'RE MY COMPANY
> I GUESS HE COULD DO ANY GENRE.
COULDN'T HE?
ANY GENRE.
DIDN'T MATTER WHAT IT WAS.
HE WAS MUSIC.
HE WROTE ALMOST EVERY DAY.
HE PERFORMED LITERALLY EVERY DAY.
AND HE COULD DO IT ALL.
LOT OF SONGS THAT WE THINK ABOUT AS BELONGING TO OTHER PEOPLE.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, MANIC MONDAY AND THE BENGALS.
PRINCE WROTE THAT TOO.
HE'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE PERSON WHAT.
I'LL SAY IS HE CARED A LOT ABOUT PEOPLE.
HE CARED ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DEBATE HAVE MUCH.
HE WASN'T BORN WITH MUCH.
SO HE WAS CONSTANTLY ON THE INTERNET, YOUTUBE TRYING TO FIND PEOPLE TO HELP.
AND THE MUSIC WAS A PART OF IT.
BUT HE MADE HIS WHOLE LIFE INTO.
REALLY GREAT INSIGHTS AND GREAT TO HAVE THIS ALBUM.
VAN JONES THANK YOU FOR BEINGWI.
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