And I saw a little note in the college newspaper “The Michigan Daily” that said Martin Luther King was going to be on campus. That was my high and exalted way of dealing with depression. I sort of locked myself up in my room in South Quad in Ann Arbor, and I think I was gobbling down burnt peanuts and reading Superman. So, it was a tough time, and I had no inner resources to deal with that. As it would turn out, my dad and my grandfather both died inside of five days. And for me, it was tougher because my dad was dying of cancer. Larry: I think everybody who’s gone to college remembers the sophomore year. Tell us about that day and the impact that it had on you. But I think I’ll start with you sitting in Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan campus on November 5, 1962… listening to a speech. Thank you.ĭenver: You have had a most remarkable life, so much so, it’s hard to know where to begin. Good evening, Larry, and welcome back to The Business of Giving. Well, he’s been good enough to come back and join us again… this time to discuss his memoir that will be released on Tuesday and aptly entitled Sometimes Brilliant.
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Larry Brilliant joined us to discuss the launch of an HBO movie he had produced called Open Your Eyes, a compelling story of a husband and wife in Nepal whose sight is restored as result of the work of the Seva Foundation founded by Dr. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.ĭenver: Back in July, Dr. Larry Brilliant, author of Sometimes Brilliant, and Denver Frederick, host of The Business of Giving on AM 970 The Answer in New York City. The following is a conversation between Dr. Brilliant walks us through some of his adventures as a civil-rights marcher, radical hippie doctor, meditating mystic, and groundbreaker in global health and Silicon Valley giving. In this edition of the Business of Giving, Dr. In his new memoir, Sometimes Brilliant, the physician and philanthropist details that remarkable journey, from his youth in Detroit and early medical career, through immersion in the ‘60s counterculture and Eastern philosophy, to his work today with tech moguls like eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll to achieve social change on a truly massive scale. He was the first director of tech philanthropy, and today he chairs the Skoll Global Threats Fund, tackling issues such as climate change and water security that, like smallpox before them, pose an existential danger to enormous swaths of humanity. In the 1970s, he played a key role in work in Bangladesh and India to eradicate smallpox, personally witnessing the end of “an unbroken chain of transmission that went back to Pharaoh Ramses.” He then co-founded the Seva Foundation, which helps prevent and treat blindness in the developing world. Larry Brilliant has had a career that lives up to his name.
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