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It is heartening that the yearning for learning is the most powerful of all human cravings

You know how powerful maps are – to communicate, to convince, to plan, to dream. But existing mapping tools make hard work of a good map. General-purpose graphics programs know nothing about mapping and can be an exercise in frustration. And GIS» geographic information systems (GIS) are used to manage and analyze geospatial data; though powerful for those purposes they often produce unattractive “GIS-looking” maps!have a steep learning curve, are expensive, and lack high-quality presentation graphics.

There are also no such things as “digital natives.” Just because many of today’s youth are growing up in a society dripping with technology does not mean that they inherently know how to use it. They don’t. Most of you have a better sense of how to get information from Google than the average youth. Most of you know how to navigate privacy settings of a social media tool better than the average teen. Understanding technology requires learning.

When you work in mass media, you know that readers, watchers, and audience members are really the products, being served up to mass media's actual customers, the advertisers. So for decades, improving the "customer experience" meant doing what's best for advertisers, whether or not it was best for the audience.

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Modern startups should only have two departments: the problem team (people in contact with customers and prospective customers, understanding and learning from their needs) and the solutions team (engineers designing and building solutions to those problems).