what an amazing story, great mind... human potential... Maureen Dowd story
“If we’re going to live to 150 years, the reality that you’re going to be with one person for 100 years is low. And so you have to find a way that we can have relationships with people and preserve what’s positive.”
Her mother raised the Wojcicki girls to be skeptical of anything too flashy or polished and to remember that it’s just as easy to wear a jacket in the house as it is to turn up the heat.
Even now that she owns a billion-dollar company, Ms. Wojcicki remains frugal and says repeatedly that she does not like “froufrou things.”
“I have people who clean the house three days a week,” she says. “And I just told them to stop doing laundry on Fridays because my kids need to learn how to do laundry on Fridays. It’s so easy to be like, ‘I don’t have to do laundry again. I don’t have to cook again.’ But then you’re not normal. I have a new rule lately. I just don’t go out on weekdays. If I’m raising kids, I need to be focused on helping implement that normalcy.”
She had to explain to her team: “Listen, when you go to the D.M.V., you don’t argue about the vision test. You don’t say, ‘Oh, I just had a vision test. I don’t need to do the vision test.’ Like, you just do it. The F.D.A. is in charge of public safety, and I have a respect for the job that they have to do. And we’re just going to do the job that they’re asking us to do.”
here is a related article on Vanity Fair that also shows her huge intellect...
In Brin, Wojcicki found another child of baby-boomer academics who could see beyond academia’s cautious, elitist approach to discovering new knowledge, a slow process in which researchers propose a hypothesis, organize an experiment to collect data, submit findings to peer review, and finally, many months later, gain publication in an esoteric journal. Brin and Wojcicki are pioneers of a different model, with enormous potential in both its reach and its speed: they look to advanced, Web-based tools and large data sets as the key to solving problems, from how to target advertising to discovering the drugs to treat cancer. Hypotheses can be limiting and scientists can be led astray; using massive computing power to find patterns is quick, and data sets don’t lie.
and this is the article on the mother in Forbes..
Many of the core principles behind Esther’s teaching pedagogy overlap with her parenting style: promoting independence and critical thinking, encouraging kids to dig into topics that truly excite them, and developing the self-sufficiency to take control of their future, both to be happy and to affect positive change in the world.
Esther’s first priority as a parent was to try to help her children learn as much as possible as early as possible, she told Forbes.
“I used them as an educational experiment, and my goal was to see how early I could teach them anything,”... “It was fun for me to teach them to swim early, read early, ride a bike, know facts about the neighborhood. You can teach kids really early.”
Esther says she saw her daughters’ entrepreneurial leanings develop early. Starting around age five or six, they each sold fruit and handicrafts around their neighborhood. Neighbors called the sisters “the lemon girls,” because they sometimes sold lemons they picked from trees on their lawn or neighbors’ yards back to their original owners, Esther says. “They would make things and sell them, little pillows. They all learned to sew.”
...instilled in their daughters was around making a positive impact in the world.
By the time she was in seventh grade she was determined that excelling academically was key to escaping her family’s financial reality. “I said, when I become a mother, I want a better life for my children,” Esther says.
“If we’re going to live to 150 years, the reality that you’re going to be with one person for 100 years is low. And so you have to find a way that we can have relationships with people and preserve what’s positive.”
Her mother raised the Wojcicki girls to be skeptical of anything too flashy or polished and to remember that it’s just as easy to wear a jacket in the house as it is to turn up the heat.
Even now that she owns a billion-dollar company, Ms. Wojcicki remains frugal and says repeatedly that she does not like “froufrou things.”
“I have people who clean the house three days a week,” she says. “And I just told them to stop doing laundry on Fridays because my kids need to learn how to do laundry on Fridays. It’s so easy to be like, ‘I don’t have to do laundry again. I don’t have to cook again.’ But then you’re not normal. I have a new rule lately. I just don’t go out on weekdays. If I’m raising kids, I need to be focused on helping implement that normalcy.”
She had to explain to her team: “Listen, when you go to the D.M.V., you don’t argue about the vision test. You don’t say, ‘Oh, I just had a vision test. I don’t need to do the vision test.’ Like, you just do it. The F.D.A. is in charge of public safety, and I have a respect for the job that they have to do. And we’re just going to do the job that they’re asking us to do.”
here is a related article on Vanity Fair that also shows her huge intellect...
In Brin, Wojcicki found another child of baby-boomer academics who could see beyond academia’s cautious, elitist approach to discovering new knowledge, a slow process in which researchers propose a hypothesis, organize an experiment to collect data, submit findings to peer review, and finally, many months later, gain publication in an esoteric journal. Brin and Wojcicki are pioneers of a different model, with enormous potential in both its reach and its speed: they look to advanced, Web-based tools and large data sets as the key to solving problems, from how to target advertising to discovering the drugs to treat cancer. Hypotheses can be limiting and scientists can be led astray; using massive computing power to find patterns is quick, and data sets don’t lie.
and this is the article on the mother in Forbes..
Many of the core principles behind Esther’s teaching pedagogy overlap with her parenting style: promoting independence and critical thinking, encouraging kids to dig into topics that truly excite them, and developing the self-sufficiency to take control of their future, both to be happy and to affect positive change in the world.
Esther’s first priority as a parent was to try to help her children learn as much as possible as early as possible, she told Forbes.
“I used them as an educational experiment, and my goal was to see how early I could teach them anything,”... “It was fun for me to teach them to swim early, read early, ride a bike, know facts about the neighborhood. You can teach kids really early.”
Esther says she saw her daughters’ entrepreneurial leanings develop early. Starting around age five or six, they each sold fruit and handicrafts around their neighborhood. Neighbors called the sisters “the lemon girls,” because they sometimes sold lemons they picked from trees on their lawn or neighbors’ yards back to their original owners, Esther says. “They would make things and sell them, little pillows. They all learned to sew.”
...instilled in their daughters was around making a positive impact in the world.
By the time she was in seventh grade she was determined that excelling academically was key to escaping her family’s financial reality. “I said, when I become a mother, I want a better life for my children,” Esther says.
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