Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the natur
It is more than two years since I saw my father last time and what I can never forget is the sight of his back. 我与父亲不相见已二年余了我最不能忘记的是他的背影。 In the winter of more than two years ago Grandma died and fath
To begin with the Youthful type of character. 我们首先来讨论一下年轻人的性格特征。 Young men have strong passions, and tend to gratify1 them indiscriminately. 年轻人有炽热的激情，而且想不管不顾地逐个满足。 They are changeable and fickle in t
Their lives are mainly spent not in memory but in expectation; 他们不是生活在对往昔的回忆中，而是生活在对未来的盼望中： for expectation refers to the future, memory to the past, and youth has a long future before it and a short
So, I decided at that moment that I could either run for the hills, or cast judgment on these young geniuses, 于是，我在那一刻决定，要不就趁早溜之大吉，或者对这些年轻天才进行评判， or instead, turn the judgment into curiosity and actua
Maybe it's time we actually valued wisdom as much as we do disruption. 也许是时候，我们应该像重视颠覆行为一样重视智慧了。 And maybe it's time -- not just maybe, it is time 也许是时候--不仅也许，的确是时候 for us to definitely reclaim the wo
It's hard to microwave your emotional intelligence. 把你的情商像微波加热那样快速提升是很难的。 There's ample evidence that gender- and ethnically diverse companies are more effective. 有充分的证据表明，性别和种族多样化的公司效率要更高。 But what a
Truthfully, power is moving 10 years younger. 事实上，权力在向年轻10岁的人转移。 We're all going to live 10 years longer. Do the math. 我们都会活多10年。算算吧。 Society has created a new 20-year irrelevancy gap. 社会创造了新的“20年不相关鸿
In sum, CEO Brian Chesky brought me in for my industry knowledge, but what I really offered was my well-earned wisdom. 总而言之，CEO布莱恩·切斯基因为我的行业知识找到我，但我真正提供的是丰富的智慧。 Maybe it's time we retire the term "kno
Here's how the alchemy worked for me at Airbnb: 这是我在Airbnb工作时发现的有效方式： I was assigned a young, smart partner, who helped me develop a hospitality department. 我被指派了一个年轻，聪明的搭档，她帮助我开发了一个住宿公寓。 Early on, La
It was my third day on the job at a hot Silicon Valley start-up in early 2013. 这是2013年初，我在硅谷一家热门创业公司工作的第三天。 I was twice the age of the dozen engineers in the room. 我的年龄是那个房间中十几个工程师年龄的两倍。 I'd been brou
And young people are also telling me that they're worried about violence. 年轻人还告诉我，他们担忧暴力。 At home, online, in school, in their communities. And again, they're right. 在家中、网上、学校、他们的社区。这一点上，他们又对了。 A youn
Or you can find it in arts projects. So this is the txtBomber. 另外也有在艺术方面的应用。这是一台叫txtBomber的机器。 So you put a message into this device and then you roll it on the wall, 将信息输进这台机器，然后将其滚过墙面， and it basica
And young people are also telling me that they're worried about employment, that they won't be able to find a job. 年轻人也告诉我，他们担心就业，无法找到工作。 And again, they're right. Every month, 10 million young people
Now, Arduino itself is made of a lot of different open-source components 目前，Arduino包含很多不同的开源组件， that maybe individually are hard to use for a 12-year-old kid, 这些组件拆开来对于一个12岁的孩子使用起来太难了， so Arduino wrap
And in South Africa, there's a program called Techno Girls. 在南非，有个叫“理工女孩”的项目。 And these are girls from disadvantaged neighborhoods who are studying the STEM program area: 这些来自弱势地区的女孩正在学习STEM科目： scienc
Can each one of us help? 我们每个人都能帮忙吗？ In our everyday lives and in our workplaces, are there ways that we could support young people? 在我们每天的生活和工作场所，我们有办法支持年轻人吗？ Young people are asking us for apprentic
So a few weeks ago, a friend of mine gave this toy car to his 8-year-old son. 几个星期前，我的一个朋友送了一辆玩具车给他8岁的儿子。 But instead of going into a store and buying one, like we do normally, 这样的礼物我们通常都是去商场买，但他没有， h
They feel that they're facing a series of urgent crises. 他们感到自己面临着一系列紧迫的危机。 A crisis of demographics, a crisis of education, a crisis of employment, a crisis of violence and a crisis for girls. 人口危机，教
Today, there are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world. 今天，全世界有18亿年龄在10-24岁的年轻人。 It is the largest cohort in human history. 这是人类史上最大的群体。 Meeting their needs will be a big
