I'd like to think I learned how to build a team that ships world-class design running atop solid, stable code.
But I've also learned some valuable lessons that have shaped how I approach health care reform today.
Developing and refining this skill has been critical my career success and I first learned how to do that as an AmeriCorps member.
And I learned early on that no matter how much money you pour into the schools, nothing replaces the love and attention and occasional scoldings from a parent. (Applause.) I learned as a community organizer that no government program can substitute for the caring and passion of neighbors and communities.
That's how I learned to read, and I've collected them very, very avidly since I was about 12 years old.
So I learned how to focus on the person that's right in front of me and deal with them and just see them one by one by one.
Third, I learned how important it is to present a plan that is clear and easy to understand.
But then, as I watched my own kids, I marvelled at how they gradually learned how to delay and how that made so many other things possible.
After making the mistake of listening to Mike Francesca spend no fewer than 20 minutes describing how he replaced a flat tire, I finally learned that billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg is planning to run the New York Marathon as scheduled this Sunday.
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And the most important lesson I learned as an AmeriCorps member was how to leverage resources and individuals to do just that.
"I've learned to understand what it means to have a platform and how to use that the right way, " Lin said.
The companies that I have started in China take advantage of my strengths, and I have learned how to leverage the strengths of others around me to offset my weaknesses.
Once I learned how easy it was to create melodies simply by shuffling five notes, I knew that I would never want to stop making music, no matter how many baby steps it took.
"I learned how to calculate the cost-to-market of Petplan's policies and how to calculate the profits that Petplan or any insurance company could make by selling their product, " he said.
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