Sam Webster-Harris
speaker
698 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Sam Webster-Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You could be a nurse or a lawyer, a teacher or a taxi driver, or a soldier on the front lines.
If you want to spot opportunities, it is much easier when you're doing things and feeling the problems firsthand.
Back in the days of the gold rush, you've probably heard it was the people selling picks and shovels that made all the money.
But the real innovator was Levi Strauss.
He started selling denim pants to miners because their clothes kept ripping.
By investigating how these rips happened, he found a single problem he could solve.
He decided to put rivets in to reinforce the seams where they kept breaking.
In doing so, he invented the most durable workwear available and he stumbled into an entire new industry.
Which is such a cool example of breaking things down to the smallest unit of problem to solve.
Now, there's many other ways to make a change in the world.
Not everything needs to be a product or service or infrastructure.
Ideas and knowledge are, of course, just as important.
Explorers who made maps for others to navigate with, scientists with discoveries that help others make new discoveries.
Newton said, if I have seen further than others, it's only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
As humans inevitably push forward into new domains, we can think about the pick shovels, denim pants, or simply ideas of tomorrow.
Following the themes that we've already touched on, I would like to look at two industries where a whole new set of primitives will certainly be created over the next decades.
Let's start with the case of Victoria Gray.
Not long ago, she was dying from sickle cell disease.
It is a genetic disorder where your red blood cells contort into sharp crescent shapes that basically shred your organs from the inside.
She compared it to broken glass flowing through her veins.
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