Ever since the economic crisis in 2008, millions of people have accepted cuts in all sorts of things - from real wages and living standards to benefits and hospital care - without any real opposition. The cuts may be right, or they may be stupid - but the astonishing thing is how no-one really challenges them.
I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.
We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
To grow, people need to be challenged.
What to do with a leading business that's challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple's willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product's features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.
The Dawn Wall is so obviously the hardest big-wall climb in the world, so that was the challenge.
I would like to work with challenging material. A challenge is good. If it's good material; it's a challenge.
A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.
If you do a quantity challenge, the problem you'd face would be a starchy challenge. If it has a lot of potatoes, a lot of bread or fried elements, that's difficult. With heat challenges, challenges that use the whole pepper are much, much easier than ones that use pepper extract. That's concentrated, and also devoid of flavour. It's just heat.
