How the author has created new, simple, do-it-yourself technologies to help people surmount seemingly impossible odds, and how you can do it, too.

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The new old-fashioned way: do it yourself -- Yes is so much more fun -- Commit, then figure it out -- Shine your light -- Jump and the net will appear -- Jimmy the back door open -- The three rules of how -- There are only monkeys -- Tapping the passion of the personal -- If not now, when? -- Help one, help many -- Fail, fail, fail, succeed, repeat as necessary -- What if nothing is impossible? -- What gets you out of bed? -- The revolution against the absurd: your turn.