Randy Fernando

I started my career at NVIDIA, which was the best place for me given my background in computer science and computer graphics.

I was a product manager for a bunch of different software products.

One of the interesting things I did was I also co-authored some books, and one of them was the first book on the first hardware shading language for the first programmable GPU, which was sort of like early days in this path that has taken us to where we are today.

I was also on the founding board of directors of the NVIDIA Foundation.

And then I kind of got interested in the nonprofit sector.

And so I ran a nonprofit called Mindful Schools that trained kids in how to pay attention, how to manage their emotions, how to cultivate kindness.

And we trained nearly a million kids and 20,000 teachers while I was there.

And since then, I've been doing this work at CHT with you and Tristan for almost 10 years.

That's right.

And the same patterns keep repeating.

And the idea of this project was to say, wait, there's a way of thinking.

There's a way of looking at the problem.

There's a way of looking at the diagnosis behind the problem.

And that same way of thinking guides you to the right answers.

Like if you are building solutions,

inside the current system, but also if you are imagining, hey, what would a good system look like?

Like if we really wanted to do things right, these same principles will help you do all of that.

So that's what we want to walk you through today.

And once we understand what's driving all of the broken ideology, then we can figure out what the opposites are and find a set of principles that actually covers a very large number of cases with just a small number of principles.

And that's really helpful because then in your mind, you don't have to remember so much and you can generalize that understanding to lots of situations that you come across in your life and in the technology around us.