Byron Auguste: preference

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…You’ve spoken in Singapore. What does Singapore need to do to support more creative talent? I think Singapore’s gotten a lot of things right in education, and I think one thing that they recognize is that there has been a bit of a conformity. I think one of the best things you can do is to widen the aperture in which you think of talent and to recognize that hybrid skills are so valuable. I think a lot of people — not just in Singapore but in this country — will tell their kids, “You should do engineering and math. ” There’s a lot to be said for that, but software development plus art, software development plus music — there’s really incredible value to having, if you will, orthogonal skill sets, hybrid skill sets because then you notice things other people don’t. I think so much of creativity comes at the margin between disciplines. I also think we’d get a lot more creativity if you had more diversity of talent. In the Singapore context, that has one meaning, and in our context, that has a different meaning. But really, two different life experiences combined with the rigors of learning something well. There’s plenty of ethnic diversity there, right?…

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