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Now, you might think this is

Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking ...

So, think about it this way

Well, first we need to figure out what they are

Is it any surprise that our world, marching to the drumbeat of GDP, is teetering on the brink of environmental disaster and filled with anger and conflict?

I'd like to share with you a very quick story to illustrate this

I'd like to give you a little example

So I've shown how tall buildings can be social connectors, but what about public architecture?

I want to pause on that question: What makes a word real?

I'm going to do this as a show of hands: How many of you still regularly refer to a dictionary, either print or online?

Now, a second question. Again, a show of hands

If I asked you to picture the air, what do you imagine?

But perhaps it's time we start thinking about climate change on the same visceral level that we experience the air.

How many of you have used an electronic spreadsheet, like Microsoft Excel?

Very good. Now, how many of you have run a business with a spreadsheet by hand, like my dad did for his small printing business in Philadelphia? A lot less.

In fact, I have a feeling that if Lehman Brothers was Lehman Brothers and Sisters, they might still be around

The more interesting question is: Did it matter they were contemplating the parable of the Good Samaritan?

That is to say, if we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically feel with them

Just a note on the colors in these images

Now, if you begin to look at the idea that these cultures could create different realities, you could begin to understand some of their extraordinary discoveries

Emails and other online communication

Learn from real emails how to arrange a meeting, naturally asking for help or advice, requesting information, follow up communications like a human. How to open and close emails formally and informally. Imagine starting an email with “Sorry to be a pain, but can you…, ”Sorry for delay in getting back to you" or "Let me know if it works for you but no hurry"

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Startups and apps

This collection is aimed at helping you present your tech startups or apps in English. You can memorize useful phrases for presenting, pitching, being interviewed on your product or service. Use the same clever collocations as successful startups used and still use in their interviews clipped from tech blogs. Such as: "Ping was born from a personal frustration with having a...", "Our Aim is To Bridge The Gap Between...", "At the core of the app lies a clever algorithm that allows" etc.

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