Epstein Secrets

and eliminate artificial needs, not live like a monk—big difference. It incorporates actionable principles and short stories ranging from Socrates to Benjamin Franklin and the Bhagavad Gita to modern economists. The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (192 pages) BY RANDY KOMISAR T

plan on vacationing a LOT more than I will be working. — MARK CAFIERO, Photographer HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014020 VIRTUAL LAW I used to work at a large Silicon Valley law firm, but one day I woke up and decided that I wanted to travel for a year and learn a foreign language. Six weeks later I was living in Cali, Co

beaver, or surprising an enemy.” They offered instead to educate a dozen or so white children in the ways of the Indians “and make men of them.”(From Benjamin Franklin, An American Life, by Walter Isaacson) What has changed? Key life skills no longer include catching beaver. Otherwise, things are pretty much the sa

students’ school year when I took a job with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as the Chief Education Officer of its new West Coast campus, located in Silicon Valley. There HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023840 New Curricula for a New Way of Teaching 95 were no faculty located at this campus, since Carnegie Mellon is in Pitts

ercise, Dave. Just as an age without connected devices will one day seem strangely antique, so will a world without the constant touch of AI. Recall Benjamin Franklin’s famous lament in the 1780s, that he’d sadly been “born too early” to enjoy the fruits of reason Starting to spill into his world as a result of the S

on inside the machines. Can we? Should we? How does Dare to know face off against these impenetrable systems. It is little surprise that places like Silicon Valley often leave a visitor with the feeling of a town where work is done in rooms within rooms within rooms. To drive along the dulled, anodyne asphalt st