And friends, if we can draw ourselves to order, my name is Philip Barlow, I'm the Director

of the Relative Studies Program here at the University, and we're delighted that you

are here and delighted that John to live and take time to be with us from his all-wins

ample schedule.

We were, as you noticed, John is technologically a deaf and was working on having everything

in order here, including a recording, and we were churned enough to notice the projector

wasn't turning on, which we had assured ourselves through the proper channels that this room

was set up for it, and it looks like a small Holocaust book in the end.

I love us, and so that's the distressing I apologize to John, especially for that,

and to you that would be bereft of what he had in mind visually for us.

But on the other hand, I've seen the man in action before, and he is agile in adaptation,

so this is a test of his mental, but I already know that that one has won, and that microphone

is only there for the recording, so are you able to hear me in the back of the room,

okay?

Thank you.

Many of you may have known John through various of his ventures, perhaps it's just the topic

that moves us you, that draws you here, or perhaps it's John himself.

I'm tempted to describe him as a restless soul because he's enjoyed a lot of enterprises

in the course of his relatively few years on the planet.

He's had a stem that Microsoft, he's worked for Massachusetts Institute of Technology

as the director of open course for open course consortium.

He has, have another gig at Bain and Company Business Consortium, which is recently famous

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