Boy, the last year has been so mentally exhausting for all of us, right? I mean, stay-at-home

orders mean you can't take any risks or try new things. Monotony is the new normal. Do you have plans?

Nope. We don't have any plans. You wake up, you go to your desk, you work all day.

Yeah, try to relax, but it's really hard when your home is your new workplace, and you can't leave.

People are so sick, untired of staying at home.

They feel like their lives have gone stale, and it's not hard to see why.

That's why I wanted to open this episode with a challenge.

I want you to try something new.

Look for signs of change in the world.

Just look at the sky. Its color shifts throughout the day from bright blue to deep orange to even purple when the stars come out to twinkle.

From the life cycle of plants to the ever-turning earth, the natural world is changing all around

us. And it's so magnificent, isn't it? And we see change in the material world

as well. I'm talking about the magic of invention. I mean, here's an example. Check out the tech

that you're using to hear me right now. Are you streaming this episode from a smartphone? I mean,

phones have changed so much over the past few decades. They used to be so big and clunky. And then when

flip phones came out, oh, I loved mine.

It was a pink Motorola razor phone.

It was the coolest tech ever.

A portable phone you could take with you

that was totally unheard of back in the 70s.

And that's when Motorola first started working on this tech.

Here's a story from Bloomberg.

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