"There's nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

--Hindu proverb"

It's best when you outdo yourself. Its hard not to focus on the other person. But then they may just bring you down to their own level. Our politics is infested with people worried about how well the other person is doing and what they got in comparison to you. That's too bad since it could help lift both all of us up and make life better for the next generations to come.

"Kids in Africa have more information today than the President of the United States did 15 years ago."

-- Ray Kurzweil*


The pace of change accelerates even to the furthest reaches of the world (or at least what used to seem like the furthest reaches of the world). If an African kid is advantaged relative to Bill Clinton circa 1996, then the U.S. needs to be moving faster in order to keep the challenges and challengers at bay.

*via tweet from Bill Gross