Guy Kawasaki
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235 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Guy Kawasaki’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's how you do it.
This is a question that is so open to abuse. Well, I love the expression there. I mean, in a sense, you know, that Sandra Bullock movie where she was running for Miss America. And then in Miss America, there's usually this place where there's the impromptu answer a question part, right? It's like, so what are your goals? You know, how do you want to contribute or whatever?
And everybody, the whole parody of the movie was she's up there. She's saying, well, You know, I want to end climate change or I want to foster education or I want everybody to have health care or clean water or all that. And I understand that. But this is about like first do good shit and everything else follows.
If you don't do good shit, then, you know, you may be just putting lipstick on a pig and you still end up with a pig. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Listen, I think that the universe has a karmic scoreboard. And someplace, somewhere, God or whatever you want, AI, whatever it is, but she is keeping track. And there's no scientific proof of karma, okay? Some things you just need to believe to see. But I believe there's a karmic scoreboard. The Japanese have this concept called bachi.
And bachi means that, you know, when you do something bad, guess what? It's going to come back to haunt you. And I believe that. And I'm not talking about just, you know, creating genocides. I'm talking about, you know, when you throw your litter out the window. When you're driving on the street, you're going to get bocce. Something is going to happen.
Your car is going to get a flat tire or somebody is going to back up into you. Something is going to happen. So I'm a big believer in bocce. So I try to never, ever take any chances.
Well, I mean, it's you could live your life just worried about bocce and the golden rule. If you just did those two things, you'd probably be OK. Yeah.
Okay, what Heather's talking about is the people who got the manuscript, they also got some acorns. And believe it or not, I bet no author has ever sent you acorns before.
Okay, so not only are there acorns, but I promise you, I personally collected those acorns. There is a street in Los Gatos, California, where for some reason the oak trees there, they really put out a lot of acorns. So I spent an afternoon picking up acorns and they probably thought, who is this dementia Asian picking up acorns?
Like I just confirmed many Asian stereotypes for people that they're getting those acorns. So now people are wondering, guy, what the hell are you talking about? Well, acorns grow up to be gigantic oaks. An oak is one of the most beautiful trees, not just aesthetically, but an oak creates an ecosystem of insects and birds and And they provide shade, and they last forever.
And so we bought a house, and it was surrounded by eucalyptus trees. The problem with eucalyptus trees is that they burn really well, and they use a lot of water. They don't have a good root structure, so they fall over. So eucalyptus trees burn, fall over, and use your water. These are not three good qualities. I hired somebody to cut a lot of these eucalyptus trees.
And then I went on a mission to return native species to this hill because eucalyptus was brought from Australia. I love Australia, if you're an Australian, because it's Canva Canva. I have a cochlear implant because I'm deaf. That's from Australia. I use an external monitor called Espresso. That's from Australia. When I podcast, I use Rode Mixer. That's from Australia.
So I love Australia, but you should not have sent the eucalyptus trees. So anyway, so now I got to figure out how do I get native oaks on this hill? And all the reading I do, it says, you know what? You can go and you can buy these saplings and you can plant them. But a much better way to grow oak trees is you start with the acorn.
And apparently, and we're going to find out, if you start with the acorn, it puts down a stronger root system. So after a few years, it will catch up to the sapling and pass it. I hope I'm alive to see this happen. But anyway... So I go and I gather these acorns. And then the first thing you learn is you got to throw all the acorns into the water because the ones that sink are good.
The ones that float are dead. So you throw away all the ones that float And then you take all the sinkers and you put them in a tray and you cover it with a cloth or something and you keep it damp in your refrigerator for two or three months because you need to simulate the winter because that's what makes it germinate. OK, so for a long time, my wife was wondering, what the hell is this trail?
Stop in our refrigerator. So then after two or three months, you plant them. And listen, you have to plant like dozens and dozens. I planted probably about 50 or 60 to get five or 10 seedlings. And it's not clear that those seedlings will be saplings. And it's not good. Those saplings will be old trees. And as I was thinking about this whole process, I,
you know, I came to the conclusion, this is a great metaphor for life, right? You've got to gather a lot of seeds. You've got to sample. You've got to gather a lot of experiences. You put them under stress. Some sink. Some float. You throw the dead floaters away. You plant the ones that have potential. Some of them actually seed. Then you take care of those. You water them. You fertilize them.
You make sure the deer don't eat them. And if you're patient and if you're lucky... in 10 or 15 years maybe i will sit under the shade of what used to be acorns but let's say i die so this is another interesting you know thing you have to come to grips with that in fact i realized that i am planting acorns that i will probably never sit under their shade
So you're thinking for your grandchildren, probably. Not even your children, your grandchildren. And so when you have a perspective that you're thinking for your grandchildren, it kind of changes everything, right? It's not about me, me, me, me, me, me, me. You know, when am I getting my reward, my bigger house, my Mercedes? And it's not even like, what am I going to give to my kids, right?
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