Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by q845712 » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

Dawa Tarchin Phillips -- he teaches mindfulness and leadership skills in schools and around the world.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by ihinsdale » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:35 PM UTC

Jon Kabat-Zinn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by pasta » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

jdmoreira wrote: post #8

Bill Gates

At the moment I am readig Factfullness from Hans Rosling [1].

He is very positive about the changes of the last (100) years.

Bill Gates is one of those people who contributed a lot to these positive changes.

[1] ISBN: 978-12-50-12381-7

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by rytill » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

sdan wrote: post #2

François Chollet

Really? Sell me on this one. Keras is great, but socially he leads people to be careless about AI safety, which is hugely negative.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by amai » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

Murray Gell-Mann

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by chris_wot » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #17

genie514 wrote: post #13

Elon Musk

Positive and delusional are different things.

It can be a fine line.

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by batonD » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

Richard Feynman. You could pretend to ask him questions and play sound bites of his interviews/lectures :)

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by simple10 » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

Kevin Adler of Miracle Messages. They reunite long lost homeless people with their families. I'm sure Kevin would be happy to do your podcast.

https://miraclemessages.org/

Re: Ask HN: Who is the most positive impactful person you know?

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Post by cadence14 » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

Repiro wrote: post #20

Jordan Peterson

This is a 'brave' answer...