Barak Swarttz
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's understanding you.
It's understanding your patterns.
It's understanding the conversation.
It's listening to us right now.
And so your timeline is essentially a reflection of like the things it's going to give you based on what you like to do, what you like to talk about.
that's a reflection, too, of what we're seeing on the internet.
And there's a lot of other things that have been, like, kind of sidelined, given all of the chatter on what's going on in the Middle East, which... And it's intentionally doing that.
It's trying to... Because your timeline is essentially going to dictate, possibly, likely, how you think about the conflict or any conflict in the world.
Yeah.
The echo chambers people live in.
I...
I think the reason I love hoops and basketball is because when I look at those four lines that I've been in my whole life, the court for me is really a sanctuary.
So my three closest friends, one's family's from Nigeria, one is from Haiti, and one is from Jamaica.
My closest friends are not Jewish.
None of them are Jewish.
When I moved to Israel in 2001, I told you that my parents come from a rabbinical background.
So we have this concept in Judaism called tikkun olam.
Tikkun means to repair and olam means the world.
So it's this concept of how do we repair the world in the ways that we can given who we are as people.
Charity, volunteer, making the world a better place is really an integral part of the Jewish tradition and also me.