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Build For Tomorrow

Your Fork Is A Sign That You Think For Yourself

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The fork isn’t just a tool for eating. It’s also one of the greatest symbols of individualism — a utensil that people opposed for thousands of years, and that only gained acceptance once we started thinking differently about ourselves. This is the story of how the fork shaped us. Get in touch! Web: jasonfeifer.com Email. jasonfeifer@gmail.com Twitter / Instagram: @heyfeifer Newsletter: https://jasonfeifer.bulletin.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.

0:07.0

But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.

0:14.0

It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.

0:20.0

Because Slackbot isn't just another

0:22.4

AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot

0:28.8

to learn more. This is Build For Tomorrow, a podcast about the things from history that shaped us and how we

0:35.4

can shape the future. I'm Jason Fiver. If you have ever gone to

0:39.6

the Louvre and seen the Mona Lisa, then you know, seeing the Mona Lisa kind of sucks. There's a

0:45.5

huge crowd and the painting is set behind bulletproof glass and it just feels like you're checking

0:49.2

off a box. But you know what? It doesn't matter because the greatest thing in the Louvre is not the Mona Lisa.

0:55.6

The greatest thing in the Louvre is the painting right across from the Mona Lisa in the same room where basically nobody else is looking.

1:03.3

I have been to the Louvre twice in my life and I have experienced this both times.

1:07.9

I gave up on the Mona Lisa, turned around, and was captivated. The thing I was

1:12.6

seeing on the other side of the room is called the Wedding Feast at Kana, and it was painted by

1:17.4

Paolo Veronese in 1563. It is enormous, like practically floor to ceiling, enormous. It is

1:25.1

roughly 22 by 33 feet, or 6.77 by 9.94 meters for you metric people.

1:31.3

It depicts an outdoor banquet framed among Greek and Roman architecture. Jesus is in the middle of the

1:37.1

table and he pops out like a biblical where's Waldo. This wedding is where the Bible says he turned

1:42.6

water into wine. But honestly, Jesus is the least

1:45.7

interesting thing in this painting because he is surrounded by so much life. So many people,

1:51.3

the upper class talking and eating, the working class carrying and cutting things for the feast.

1:56.2

There are musicians, dogs on leashes, a little person holding a parrot, I have stood in front of this

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