(cure) (city)

http://gawker.com/all-my-friends-are-dead-489716639

My new life started in 10th grade at a desk in my science class in my public school on the Upper West Side of NYC. I remember the exact moment ….the Ritalin kicked in.

Peter Moskowitz

define normal.

I don’t feel resentment over the years I was on speed because I know I’m in good company. I’m a statistic in America’s drug problem.

1 in 5 high school boys are diagnosed with ADHD

57 million anti-psychotic prescriptions filled (2011)

400 percent spike in antidepressant use (1990-now)

1 in 5 American women currently on an antidepressant

redefine success.

Jerry Michalski

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/the-changing-face-of-medical-school-admissions/?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=HL_TCF_20130503

The results have been both uplifting and unexpected. …..faculty members have noted that students appear to be more collegial, supportive of one another, open to new ideas and perspectives and engaged in community activities

even med school.

embrace chaos. alive people.

differentiation. to infinity. perpetual beta.

breathtaking. by design.

..doing/being the thing they can’t not do/be

How are the people around you doing?

700 million

one

How are the people around you doing?

..doing/being the thing they can’t not do/be.

remarkable

tech connects

everyday

700 million

one

How are the people around you doing?

..doing/being the thing they can’t not do/be.

remarkable

tech connects

everyday

How to facilitate/crowdsource curiosities?Perhaps by hastening the time between

finding what matters to you & finding your people.

closest to now possible

how to shrink/hasten/accelerate this time period. everyday.

like..

chinachina

8 yr old70 yr old

Oh. You meant a plate..

Oh. You meant a country..

No big deal. Another match up happening tomorrow. Think Groundhogs Day or 50 first dates.

guitar amp

GED volume amp

15 yr old52yr old

Whoa. That’s how it works?

Could you have your band test it out?

Cool jets. A connection is made in real life. App records it as a trail/node.

An app that would encourage/create/support:

1. People talking to themselves

daily, asking themselves if they are doing what matters.

2. People connecting to people in their city/community, a strategic serendipity.

3. People’s mesh network, their footprint or trail.

Julia, age 12, uses a donated/recycled laptop and the donated wifi from the wifi bank, to voice record the following before she goes to bed:

I noticed a lot of my friends’ parents have cancer. They keep talking about early detection. I asked my mom and she said if you find out early on, the cancer can usually be cured, but that not enough people find out early. I also watched a video of a 17-year-old that wrote a recipe to cure cancer and is now working at Stanford. I’m dreaming about finding ways to improve early detection. I want to connect to people who are experts at this and see what I can learn from them.

Vicki, age 25, uses her iphone and texts while waiting at the doctor’s office:

I just found out my mom has cancer. They told her they didn’t find it soon enough and that it’s spreading too fast. I’ve got to research myself, find out some other answers for her.

Tom, age 7, uses his mom’s ipad and his family’s wifi access, to record the following:

My mom has been doing this healing stuff my whole life. I’ve never believed in it before. But she started doing it with me, because I have/had asthma, and now I don’t have it anymore. I’m really interested in seeing if it can help people with cancer.

The app connects them.

A mesh network created for each of these could have one small node representing their intense curiosity and that’s it. Or, it could be the start of an offshoot node, as they advance into the study of health and medicine. Either way, this cancer node could be detected by the app in a couple weeks by someone else talking to themselves about the same things and then they all receive notification of another potential connection.

5 mill – ish: for tech,

while none of the ideas are new, combining them might be, being able to pay experts [to write code, for an app to hasten the time between finding what matters & finding your people…] and purchase resources [wifi, devices,..] will accelerate the ability to make this equitable on a global scale.

[find more at redefineschool.com – search: betting on the sync]

part of – betting on the sync

It is a fact today that 1 in 10,000 of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living.

We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist.

– Bucky Fuller

So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

– Bucky Fuller

– if it works.

German weekly Der Spiegel quoted

in its cover story on 2 February 2012

…the US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, ..

the scientific father of ADHD

said at the age of 87, seven months before his

death in his last interview 2009…

ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.