Embrace Open Networks

What does current structures drive towards? So LinkedIn, it's set up that you really just connect with people that you already know or you worked with. And I know myself whenever I've reached out. Sometimes if you reach out to connect with people that don't know you, if you get too many no's, I don't know that person, LinkedIn will actually warn you. And then after, if you keep doing, will lock you out of your account for a certain period of time. What does social media set up? Oh, you hang around with these types of people, you have these types of political views, you buy these types of products, you're in the same swim lane, Twitter, all of that stuff. So where creativity comes from is having more expansive data points. So if you're literally in the same swim lane and hang out with the same people with the same views, you're not going to expand. So the concept of an open network, which is an area that I'm thinking about, of how do we drive more mentorship into the world, especially for young people, because I think that's one of the ingredients and one of the opportunities that we have. And that's almost like, what would it be like if you had your own personal board of directors that could help you think about your life and it could be a domain that you're interested, robotics, AI, whatever that might be, but other individuals that you never would have thought of connecting with and can bring an entirely new perspective from anywhere around the globe. What we found, there's actually, there was a study done, that Forbes magazine article, I can get it for you. But scientific data actually shows that the more open networks that you have, not only the more successful you are in life, but the happier you are in life, the more fulfilled that you feel in life. So the concept of that open network is that we've got to step outside of these current structures and systems that literally keep plunking you in the same swim lane. You got to get into a whole bunch of swim lanes.