Mo Gawdat
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Mo Gawdat fits The Visionary because his career has been spent standing at the frontier and describing what lies beyond it. As former Chief Business Officer of X, Google's moonshot factory, he operated inside institutionalised ambition.
“But then we suddenly recognized that this probably is the topic of the time, right? So unstressable is a part of a big strategy to try and get a million people out of stress every year simply because I think the mounting stress in the world is one because of events outside most people's controls.”
“Take a simple example a simple example is if you're stuck in a factory job, your life is harsh today. If you add to it an obsession that my life will always be harsh, you're more stressed because of the obsession, not because of the harshness of life. If you tell yourself I am working day and night to feed my kids.”
“But the question really is have you seen the movie Her? So basically, if I didn't tell you that this was a human, if I told you this was a call center agent, You be able to tell the difference The other problem that most people don't realize is if I told you that ChatGPT was text-based. Just six to nine months ago.”
“To tell me, Oh, but hold on, Mo What if there is a nuclear war because the you know the Iranians don't agree with the Americans and that the nuclear dust comes to Dubai so your real estate portfolio in Dubai gets wiped out and what will happen then?”
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