[music] [applause] I bow to the divine within you. I still remember the day my teacher at a parent teacher conference looked at my father and said, "Mr.. Nariman, I think your daughter is average in the class." For a moment, it stung. I felt the word average hang in the air like a judgment.And as I glanced at my father's flushed face, I felt the sharp tinge. Ouch. That must have hit a nerve with him, too.Is average bad. In a world obsessed with being at the top, was middle of the bell curve something to be ...

The last time I was in San Francisco, I got into a Whimo, one of these self-driving cars with the weird thing on the roof. And I tell you, it was a pretty bizarre experience for me. Because literally, there's no driver. It was just a screen, me, and this unsettling robot voice announcing, "Welcome to the future. " And so, faced with this magnificent future, I did what most of us do when we get into the back seat of a car. I um I doom scrolled. That's right. I checked to see how many people did or did not li ...