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Welcome to Luke week, everyone. You guys submitted your questions on full plane

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and I am here to answer them, or at least that's what I think a Q and A

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is supposed to function as. The first one is from something random

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and they said, what is your job? Yeah, I think this also blends in with the next question,

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which is from Crystal Fear, Crystal Fire.

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They say, how many titles do you have now between full plane and LMG?

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So I'm gonna kind of bundle these two together. So on the full plane side, I'm the COO,

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fairly nebulous, it doesn't really mean much. I do basically all of the overarching roles at full plane.

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I have done most of the creative recruitment.

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I led the direction for, if we were gonna do the whole sauce plus thing or not,

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it's for full plane itself, which is different than full plane in the company,

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but for the full plane service and website, I'm like the product owner and overall direction person.

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I don't do individual tasking. That team is very senior, extremely knowledgeable,

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knows what they're doing, very hardworking. I don't need to be on them. I can just give them a target

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and they'll absolutely smash right through it, which is fantastic.

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That includes also the Labs website, where it's a very similar situation

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with like Dan Siegel more directly running that team, but I say high level with it, give general direction.

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That this theme continues with Conrad and the Creator Warehouse store, lttstore.com,

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where there's like this idea of,

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oh, we're gonna have to do this thing. Let's kind of ideate on the concept,

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but then Conrad's the one doing everything and including a significant portion of the ideation,

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sometimes all of it, and then running through with those projects.

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Tyler is another one. He's kind of like internal tools. So he's working on like a bot to interface

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between Airtable and Teams, and he's done reporting tools for us in the past,

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so we can see like what's going on with the lttstore and make sure that that team can get charts and data

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on what's happening on lttstore in terms of sales

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and incoming products and all this other kind of jazz. He's also worked with Peter in the past

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on an inventory system that we have, and he built a tool when he was pretty early on here

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where the editors were working with Whisper, but back then Whisper was command line interface only,

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so he made a GUI for it so that the editors didn't have to be in there

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tippy-tapping in command lines. So all of that kind of stuff

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is under my Flow Plane COO title. I do a lot of the budgeting for Flow Plane.

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I do general company direction. I do yada, yada, yada.

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So I fit a lot of the like kind of C-level things

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for Flow Plane. Moving over to LMG. I have Head of Labs and CTO.

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Now Head of Labs, you would kind of think would report into CTO.

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So the fact that I have Head of Labs is a little weird. I probably don't actually need it.

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I just got it because the previous person, Gary, who is in the role, had that title.

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So when I took his responsibilities, they gave me the title, but realistically it kind of flows into itself

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and isn't necessarily necessary. So let's just really talk about CTO.

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Under there I have IT, which again, I'm fairly high level on

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because AJ, who's from the Flow Plane team, is actually managing the IT

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for Linus Media Group as well. But I do direction, guidance, product ownership,

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that type of stuff. Outside of IT, there's also then Labs,

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which is where the Head of Labs comes from. Labs has two supervisors in it, Nick and Lucas.

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Lucas runs test development.

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So of a new vertical, like we've been working on headphones with DMS for a while.

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Lucas is heading that up. He's DMS' reporting line.

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But Lucas also does some other things where he manages writing within Labs as well.

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And then Nick manages software development and testing.

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And then Nick and Lucas report up into me.

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So again, I'm more high level at this point,

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direction, stuff like that. Not so much individual tasking and micromanagement,

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which I hate anyways, and I don't think is a good management method

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for anyone, let alone me. But then I also do stuff outside of my roles.

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So I kind of advise for other sections of the company

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and try to work on overall company direction and stuff. At this point, I've existed in this system for so long.

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Someone working in the YouTube space for 15 years.

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It's a space that moves really fast and is very complicated.

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And I've been in it the whole time. So I can kind of advise across the company's org

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at this point. It doesn't mean I'm doing everything. That doesn't mean I'm in way too many meetings.

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It doesn't mean I'm actually making a lot of these decisions across the org,

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but I try to give my input when I can. And hopefully that even slightly answers your question.

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It's, I ask this question of myself decently often.

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Like, what the hell am I doing? Every week is very different,

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but it's a big part of the reason why I like the job. The next one from Flucey.

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If you had an extra four hours a day, what would you spend them on? Probably sleep, to be honest.

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Sleeping or like working out is probably it.

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How much sleep did you get today? I think I got five and a half hours today

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and I didn't work out yesterday. So yeah, it would be a split between sleeping

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and working out. The thing that I often lose out the most on,

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which makes me really sad is either working out or sleep.

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So if I had four extra hours, it would be one of those two. The correct answer is spend time

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with your lovely girlfriend. She can do both of those things with me, Sammy.

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And a Maxter asks, what do you think is the best and worst outcome of the AI bubble?

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The worst outcome is people lose homes and their lives are ruined and things suck,

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which happens when stock markets crash.

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The best outcome is I think probably decently similar

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to what happened after, in certain degrees, obviously,

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to what happened after the dot-com crash, just where we see more realistic things

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start to happen after the market kind of adjusts back down.

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The second part of this person's question was, and also there's more AI stuff coming later this week.

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So stay tuned for that. The second part of his question was also, what do you think is a good career path for React Dev?

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There's lots of work out there. Well, I mean, a lot less now

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that there's been 10 trillion layoffs, but there is work out there for React Devs.

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JavaScript is going nowhere. Stay up to date on different frameworks and just keep going.

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Huge fanboy. Besides chicken, what do you love eating the most?

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Meal or ingredient? Nachos. I will genuinely think less of any restaurant

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if they don't have nachos. I almost don't care what restaurant it is.

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I would love to eat sushi after eating nachos.

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I would love to eat anything after eating nachos.

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I could also just be fine with nachos and then more nachos.

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That would be okay. Philidian asks, if a genie granted you three wishes

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to use on Flowplain, what would they be? The life of the people on the team

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was easier and less stressful. I know it's been tough.

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We've been a pretty small team forever, been a little bit hard and expensive and whatnot

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to grow the team, but we're trying. And they've been, a lot of people that are on that team

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have been through a lot at this point. So I kind of, I wish their road here was easier.

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I am happy and have no regrets

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over the people that we hired. I absolutely love the people on the team.

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It would be pretty nice if they were all here

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and I could work with them in office, but I think we have found a ton of success

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through our remote model. And it's cool that some of them are kind of centralizing

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in a particular area right now that I'm not gonna disclose, but I think that's cool

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because having a sense of community is fantastic. And then the last one would be

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if we were a little bit less ambitious early on

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with our features so that at this point in time,

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we didn't have things like live streaming kind of looming over us,

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where there's like one creator on the platform that does live streaming.

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They do it one time a week and it takes a very disproportionate amount of effort

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to keep things there ship shape. And I just, I wish we never did live streaming.

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Andrew Candy says, regardless of development stage, viability,

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or likelihood of success, which emerging technology would you be most excited for?

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Something to do with batteries. Batteries and charging sucks and they're heavy

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and they're annoying and they're dangerous. And a lot of them are like conflict minerals

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where they're like morally dubious to use in any way.

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I wish there was, I know there's some work on this, some like salt based thing where it's plentiful and easy

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and less dangerous and higher capacities and stuff.

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That would be, that would be fantastic. That or, and I've read the chips and cheese article on it.

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I get it, CISC versus risk and they think CISC is better

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and x86 is still here to say and all that fun stuff. But it would be nice if open risk-based processors

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were like more of a thing. I'm getting so tired of closed systems these days.

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We're seeing the downsides of it with Microsoft and how everything is starting to insert ads everywhere

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and it's owning your entire life and it sucks. And open systems are becoming like necessary

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in every possible way. And that's one of them. BioFlash asks, if you were in the position of Linus,

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what would you have done differently? A lot, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it would have all been good.

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If I was in Linus's position, I seriously doubt we would have ever made a screwdriver

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or a backpack. I don't know that Creator House would exist at all. And I'm not saying that that's a good thing.

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I just don't have that mind for products necessarily

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in the way that he does. I think we would have grown a lot slower

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in a much more measured way. At the same time, one of the reasons for that

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is that I would personally wanted to mess with things

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and experiment potentially a little bit more often, but there is a dangerous side of that.

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And I would have resisted growing the company too fast

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in order to be able to absorb those things potentially easier. Again, these are things that are not necessarily better,

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but you asked differently not what would you have improved.

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Like there's something I'm gonna be trying to, I'm probably gonna pitch on Wanshow today actually,

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which is that we changed how ShortCircuit works to go back to a very old style filming that we had.

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If you look way back to the GTX 980 review in 2014,

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the method of filming that we had was Linus would present and then I would present the benchmarking results

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and then the video would go back to Linus for a little bit and then end. When the product comes in,

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it just goes straight to somebody on ShortCircuit. They unbox it on camera first time

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and talk about their experience with it. And then it cuts to somebody in Labs afterwards

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who gets the product after the ShortCircuit people and they talk about the benchmarking there,

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harkening all the way back to those like old reviews that we did just to split things up.

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That's something that I would do differently. That's much more recent.

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I've been pretty open about how I would have done the Labs completely differently from the beginning.

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We're still kind of getting to that vision.

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I don't know, if I was in charge, the company would probably be a lot smaller,

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a lot less successful in a total revenue standpoint,

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but there are things that personally, in a biased headstrong fashion, I think would be better

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and there's things that I know would be worse. Simply Nintendo asks,

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is there going to be any exciting tech in the new space if so what?

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I don't fully understand what this means. What I'm going to take it as

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is there going to be any new exciting tech

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in its own space.

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And the way that I'll take that is that I think AR glasses feel like the future.

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If you look at the ShortCircuit channel, that video Riley did on the Meta glasses just popped off

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very differently to Google Glass back in the day. I'm actually seeing a lot of people walking around

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wearing various smart glasses, mostly the Metas. I really hope any company, pretty much any company

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other than Meta figures this out. That feels like the direction that things are going in.

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It feels like VR is kind of less interesting to people these days, unless Valve does it.

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It feels like the mixed reality stuff

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that Samsung and Apple are doing didn't really catch on,

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but these AR glasses seem to be the thing.

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Aperson545 asks, hi, what are some tech essentials

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for most gamers? Hot take, most stuff that people are interested in

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if they're watching this channel is excess.

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I think some of my most prime gaming years

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were with pretty junk stuff. For the vast majority of people,

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most things are going to be okay. And what I would focus on if I were you

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is things that resonate with you nicely. Do you like how that keyboard feels?

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Do you like how that mouse feels to use? Do you like a really light mouse?

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Prioritize a really light mouse. A lot of mice these days,

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the latency to the computer is really solid. So find one that you'd like to use and feels good for you.

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If you're not going literal pro, it's probably okay.

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Shroud might be able to tell the difference between some like incredible monitor

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and an incredible mouse and how those interact with each other and whatnot.

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Is it going to happen to me? I think I'm pretty okay at most games.

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The answer is no, I'm not going to notice at all. PC master rays said based on the last 15 to 20 years,

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how would you say your attitude towards achieving personal success has evolved if at all,

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alongside the positive changes in personal financial security over the same time period?

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I think about this a very weird amount maybe. I don't know, is this something you think about often?

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Like what would kid me think about where I am now? I'll be like, he's living the dream.

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Okay, but do you think about that ever? No, I think about that like weekly.

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Really? Oh, I'm not even kidding. That's a constant thought process for me.

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I remember when I was a kid, I had this idea. There was this road not too far from my parents house

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and there was a rancher on it. And I remember thinking, I'd love to own kind of a smaller place like that

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because when I was a kid, owning a house seemed detainable.

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I want to own a smaller place like that, have a dog, have a girlfriend or wife that I like a lot

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and just try to live pretty easy. Work kind of as little as possible,

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play a bunch of video games, play sports, hang out with my friends and just have a good, nice, easy life.

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And then now I have three titles and no one can describe what my job is.

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So things have changed a bit in terms of attitude. I think a lot of that is just because of feeling ownership

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over this thing and feeling responsibility for the people

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that I lead, the people on my teams, any of the teams,

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the full plane side, the LMG side, it doesn't matter. Feeling responsibility for making sure

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that they are as equipped as possible for their personal success and stuff

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has been very internally rewarding for me. The dollar's not as much for me personally.

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I find a lot more reward through working with people

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and seeing overall team success. I've always been very into team success.

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That goes back to sports and everything else. Like solo sports, I was never that interested in.

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Team sports, I was extremely interested in. I've always had this type of mentality.

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I'm not against my old dreams.

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I'm just not there right now, and that's okay. I think old me would be proud of where I'm at.

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I feel like I'm generally doing the right things. Obviously there's mistakes all the time,

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but I like to think that I'm mostly approaching things appropriately and that previous and future me

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would be okay with what I'm currently doing. I think there will be regrets for how little sleep I get

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and the lack of certain things that I wish I could do more of.

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I mean, that is nice, but I intentionally live

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below my means and that will always be true. I do not have a particular taste

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for overly expensive things. If I can eat at decently nice places,

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if I can take a vacation now and then hang out with friends,

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do some things like that, I'm gonna be really happy. I don't need a fancy car.

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I love and adore my car. My car's from 2009, is it Acura?

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It had its first unscheduled repair ever yesterday.

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It was $400. I love that car. Dan, the WAN Man Floaty says,

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if cost time and resources weren't a problem, what would you develop if you could?

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I have a perfect answer for this. It's called vinegar.

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I had this idea years ago. If one of you wanna do it, please do it.

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If you take my name, wrote me in there somehow. So the reason why it's called vinegar

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is because it was to counter honey. And no, this is not because of the honey controversy.

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I had this thought years ago. The grand vision was it was fully user configurable.

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or they stand for a certain social issue that I care about, or whatever else,

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it would like on Amazon ward you away from there.

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is the death of brick and mortar. I don't want that to happen.

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I personally try to basically never shop on Amazon.

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I can't remember the last time I did. I think it was over a year ago, I don't know. There are some things you can literally only get there

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that is part of this problem. The thing that I wanted to do was when I went

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onto a page on Amazon, I wanted it to tell me

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where else I could buy this thing from.

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How do I not buy it from here? The idea kind of moved on from there,

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I don't like Nestle as a company. But Nestle makes freaking everything.

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here's the other place that you can buy it, but as a heads up, this goes against the things

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that you listed so you can decide to buy it or not.

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So it's like an anti-honey, where it's not incentivizing you to buy the thing,

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because it's like, oh, it's cheaper. It's going, hmm, maybe reconsider based on the factors

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that you laid out, you individually, I don't want the platform to make any decisions.

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I want someone to do it. I laid out all the specs, and then I realized how incredibly hard that is to make.

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And then I didn't do it. Andrew A asks, what are your current favorite YouTubers?

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I've been watching a lot of speed with three E's.

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I've been watching a bunch of big A, Mythical Kitchen, Level One Tex, Eddie Burback is hilarious.

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Zack the Bold is fantastic. Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff.

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Nerdlaw says, what benefits would you want to see

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from current AI development, and what scares you the most?

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to create more than they ever have been in the past,

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over the empowerment of corporations. What scares you the most? The empowerment of corporations over individuals.

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being able to rise up and find personal success more easily through the use of AI.

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crushing the job market and making it so that it's like, impossible for people to get started

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and increasing the class divide and class gap.

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Luke Stuck, in a recent WAN Show,

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you said your family was a big sports family. What sports did you play and what was your favorite?

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There's probably other stuff in there. Did I say football already? Probably. I think football was probably my favorite.

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Ball hockey. I don't know if I even mentioned it, ball hockey. Ball hockey would be my favorite.

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Ball hockey I played the most. It was great.

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Football's a close second, but ball hockey's number one for sure. Kerry says, what is your favorite thing

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about your relationship with Linus outside of employment? Linus is a very good driver, good inspiration.

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There are many times where I think I'm doing quite well

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with something and everyone around me is saying that I'm doing quite well with the thing

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and he'll look at it and be like, I think you're capable of more and here's why.

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to just celebrate wins. He will often be like, cool and next, which is good.

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Galaxy SG says, what is one thing you wish you had done

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differently when creating Floatplane? I'm not a person who strongly hangs on regrets.

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in the creation of Floatplane, needed to happen to inform future decisions.

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followed a different time. I, there's some easy low hanging fruit.

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I wish we never did live streaming. Sales was a bad decision.

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I wish we went somewhere else with that. In both of those cases, well, less so in live streaming.

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With sales, there was no way for us to know that until way down the line.

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And I don't see us ever making a different decision

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with the information that we had at the time. I respect the team and the decision at that time.

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I was part of it. I'm not trying to show responsibility at all to be very clear.

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It did make a bunch of things more difficult later on,

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but that's part of it. I don't think changing any individual thing

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would have necessarily been a net good because we had a lot of learnings from it

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other than maybe freaking live streaming and working with PayPal.

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Captain observant, you're known for being frugal. What are some things you're not frugal about?

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Thanks for not saying cheap, by the way. There is a difference.

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I don't think I'm frugal on, I don't know. What do you think, Sammy?

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You've traveled with me and stuff? I don't know, because every time I see you, it's the same backpack, same shirts.

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I think when we go out for food, you're like, I'll get this and you don't think about it.

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That's true. I think my usual line is experiences.

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If we're eating out at a cool restaurant in a foreign country and I see something that looks

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interesting, I'm gonna try to go for it. That also bleeds into other things as well,

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but my ideal experiences don't necessarily line up

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with other people's ideal experiences, which is another thing that leads to people thinking

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that I'm being particularly frugal, when I might not even be, I just want the other thing.

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Like I'm not gonna spring for really fancy hotels.

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I am gonna spring for weird hotels in the middle of nowhere,

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which might lead me to having off the road, weirder, less common, hopefully grounded

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with the people of that area experiences. Like one of my favorite things ever was in the mountains

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of Alishan in Taiwan, Emma and I went to this place

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that I don't know the full name translated to English,

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but I think it's like shoe size 11 or something.

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11 is in it, the Arabic numeral 11 is in the name,

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so you can find it that way, but for 24 hours, you could just stay with a mountain tribe in Alishan

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and pick tea and cut down bamboo and cook rice in the bamboo

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and see some of their practices and how they do things.

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That was amazing. That's an experience for me that like,

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if the bank account can take it, I'm gonna spend to make that happen.

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There was parts of that work that were expensive. I had to take a really long bullet train to get down there.

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We had to stay overnight at a hotel. We had to get a long taxi way up into the mountains.

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The next day we had to get a long taxi down out of the mountains the day after.

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None of that was cheap, but it was an incredible life memory.

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I'll also spend money on my pets for vet bills

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and things like that, the people around me, my family, stuff like that.

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I also get sentimental over things. Sammy mentioned, I see the same backpacks.

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My like red backpack has been with me on every single trip I've done for like a decade.

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That has value to me. A new one that looks great

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doesn't particularly have value to me. The fact that this one has been everywhere with me,

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it's held together, it's still holding together. It has scars from something that happened.

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It has marks from things that happened. That holds so much value to me over some new shiny product.

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I like those types of things. It's one of the things with my car. Every time I get into my car,

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there's, I feel appreciation for it. And it's been there and bad times has been there and good.

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I like my car, I don't want anything else. Jim, Jim Daru asks, what's your favorite,

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what's your most liked slash favorite and least liked slash favorite thing you own?

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Tech or non-tech related? People or animals included. What's going on, Jim?

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I don't own her, but I'm gonna say Emma. Least favorite.

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I don't think you have one. Yeah, I know. Or teams. Teams.

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I don't actually own that, the company does, but teams, screw teams. What percentage of your daily time is spent in meetings?

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Give me a second. Just this week, my time spent in meetings was 32 hours.

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Jesus Christ. That doesn't include anything that isn't on Google Calendar.

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So impromptu meetings, outside of hours unscheduled meetings.

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I had five hours of calls unscheduled

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outside of hours last night. Those were not included in that number.

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We had a meeting before the shoot and we're having probably one after this too.

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Yep. Both unscheduled.

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So it's actually, it's more than that. And then I said, do you wish it was less

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or do meetings work well for you? I absolutely wish it was less. I like to position myself as a form of like shield

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between outside parts of the company, outside parts of the world and my team.

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So I would rather deal with the meetings

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and the anything that could create blockages

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or annoyances for people on my team instead of them dealing with it. So I try to deal with as much of that

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and put it on me as I possibly can. But that doesn't mean that I like it.

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And I do hope to reduce those, but I don't hope to reduce those by shirking them off onto people on my team.

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Yo-Hank said, best movie ever. Dark Rainbow replied with 90% chance of him saying hackers.

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That person's right. But to subvert expectations,

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I'm gonna instead of just saying movie, my family's been starting to rewatch

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Lord of the Rings again. Oh, that's hard to beat. Adam Skeedoo said,

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have you got any cool ideas slash goals that you would like to investigate and accomplish with the Labs?

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Yeah, but my current line for the Labs is like that I'm more thinking kind of vision

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right now with the lab. And the reason why I say that is because...

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So one, cool ideas are goals I'd like to investigate and accomplish.

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A goal for the lab for me is for it to, this is something Nick Harrison,

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the lab and I have talked about extensively is that we want it to feel like a Bill Nye lab.

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And what does that actually mean? Neither of us have watched Bill Nye the Science Guy since we were in like elementary school.

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So it's a little hard to remember, but the feeling that we had at that time was that there was fun questions asked

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and we went along the journey of answering them

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and experiencing it. So I wrote this thing called The Way,

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which I absolutely stole from Star Wars, My Bad. And it's five bullet points of like

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how you should decide to do things or not within the Labs.

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That's not final. I don't know why I even share that with you guys,

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but that's like kind of where I'm at with the lab right now. The lab has a long way to go to becoming what I think

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it has the potential to become. I want us to have a YouTube channel for it.

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We need to start working slightly in different ways as time goes on.

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But that to me is a cool idea of this like technical machine

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that you can ask questions of it and it will output cool, interesting answers

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and bring you along the journey. So I hope that's how that becomes.

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Noki, good old Noki. Shout out Noki said,

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a few times on the WAN Show you've expressed your interest in building a new mineral cool PC, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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If it was closed off, how would it be dangerous? Leaks, even the thermal take systems

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aren't like perfectly closed off. I just don't trust it on a percent.

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When it comes to the health of the birds,

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they have this innate ability to just die at any moment.

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And it's just not worth the risk when I could just have a normal computer. Mr. J. Cops says,

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where does one draw discipline from to stay fit? I mean, I struggle with that now.

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It's not out of desire to stay fit. It's out of, I just have no freaking time.

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So sometimes I have a really hard time getting to the gym. In my opinion, don't scream at me.

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Especially once you hit a certain age, I think you just have to.

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The body is generally a machine that requires movement.

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And if you're not doing that, a lot of modern life,

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Uber Eats, Netflix, all these different things promote this idea of being extremely sedentary.

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And if you do that in my experience, my lived experience,

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is that things start to kind of shut down. You start feeling like crap mentally, physically,

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and to stave off that demon, you have to go be physically active.

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It doesn't mean you have to go in the gym and do deadlifts,

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but you got to find something that works for you. And I think you just have to.

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And that can involve like one of the ways that I do it is playing Pokemon Go.

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Pokemon Go is a dopamine machine that gets me walking.

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That is the only, it's a terrible game. If you want to get into it because you're like,

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oh, it's probably so sick. It is not sick. It is actually just a bad game,

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but it is also a dopamine machine. And if you play it the way that you want to play it,

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instead of getting into remote raiding and all that other crap that, again,

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promotes keeping you at home, sitting on the couch, if you only play it when you're out and moving and stuff,

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you can use it to get you out there, get you moving. Find people that will be fun to hang out with.

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Join a biking club or something and go biking with people. Join a running club.

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Find a workout buddy, go to the gym, do something. I think it's highly beneficial for everyone.

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Chocolate Ducks said, do anything big lately.

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Labs has been going on a world tour of sorts,

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which has all been in America, but they'd like hearing that. We've gone to Intel, we've gone to Qualcomm,

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we've gone to NVIDIA, we're hoping to get AMD on there.

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We're trying to see what other Labs are doing

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for performance testing and how they conduct it and all that kind of stuff. See what their approaches are.

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See how off we are. The answer has been not that far off, which is really cool.

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Did you vlog it? No. No! Pethor says, where do you see

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full playing going in the next 10 years? I mean, there's tons, obviously. There's usability progress all the time.

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We're always making minor steps forward for accessibility.

418
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There's usability progress, or technical slash usability progress that we're going to be seeing

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in regards to TV apps and other various apps.

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This is Jaden's idea, and it's wonderful,

421
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and I want to see it through, which is we want to kind of divert

422
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how full-plane has been acting, where instead of everybody's just on full-plane,

423
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full-plane is the home, you have to come here to see everything. People have kind of their own homes.

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So you could go to like a Linus Tech Tip specific,

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or Linus Media Group, let's say, specific website and then see just our stuff there,

426
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and it's all our branding. It looks like our stuff. It looks like our page. Similarly to how Shopify is kind of set up,

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where there's the Shop app, if you're unfamiliar with it, basically there's one place that you can go

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that has all the different stores on Shopify on it, but you can also just go to lttstore.com

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and buy stuff there, or whatever other website that's on Shopify.

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We want to kind of make it so that the creators on full-plane have their own websites

431
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that are kind of their own experiences, but it's a full-plane login, it's full-plane payments,

432
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but the rest of it is all theirs. And we can make that for them,

433
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but it's their experiences, their home. Most people on full-plane are subscribing to one creator.

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There are some people that subscribe to multiple. The people that subscribe to multiple could go to fullplane.com and see the mix of creators.

435
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Amazing idea from Jaden, or Jaden and Peter,

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or both of them, or Peter or something. I don't remember exactly where it originated,

437
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but it was over there. I really want to try to champion that and push that forward.

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I think it's brilliant. And I really do think that is the future of full-plane,

439
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because the thing that we've always really enjoyed doing is the technical side of things.

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So if we can just give people the ability to have their own space on the internet, that's awesome.

441
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And I think that's something we could excel at. Brooke Solis.

442
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Brooke? Brooke? Brooke? What was the spark that led you into the tech space?

443
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Any fun tech-related projects when you were a kid? My dad gave me a computer to work on

444
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when I was really young and didn't know anything. And he let me just wrench on it, however I pleased.

445
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My dad has a fun story that, when he was getting married to my mom,

446
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he kind of leaned in, someone else was saying something, but they were up at the front and was like,

447
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I bought a computer this morning. My dad's always been into computers.

448
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He got me into computers for sure. He was the spark.

449
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Cloudy Cat said, we know you lied on your resume, but how much did you lie?

450
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My education and job experience were accurate. I also included my computer.

451
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The job was specifically asking for someone with camera experience.

452
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And I said that I had photography and videography and editing experience.

453
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That was all a lie. I didn't say it was for a job, I just said I had it.

454
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I had actually technically never filmed anything of any form at that point in time.

455
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I had never recorded a video when I applied.

456
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I got a buddy of mine to approve me attaching

457
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some videos that he had made and some pictures that he had taken,

458
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fairly confident that I could just watch YouTube videos and learn how to do it.

459
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And I did that. And then in the interview, for some reason,

460
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I admitted that I made all that up. And he was like, okay, well,

461
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let's have you film something right now and see how it goes. And I did.

462
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And then that video was uploaded and I bent the rules again

463
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because he was like, we'll see what the commenters say. And I was like, great, thanks for telling me that.

464
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And then I went and got all of my friends that I knew to comment on the video

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and say it was like the best thing ever filmed. I spread that far and wide.

466
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I generated multiple accounts myself.

467
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A bunch of those comments are me. And then I got the job and I'm still here.

468
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Dark Rainbow said, how did you feel at first when you're appointed to the head of Labs?

469
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Were you worried that you might not be able to do a good job? How do you figure it out eventually?

470
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How did you figure it out eventually? Very gracious for you to say that I figured it out eventually.

471
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Yeah, I was worried. I was very worried. I had talked a lot of crap publicly and privately

472
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about what was going on in the Labs. And then it was time to put up or shut up in a way.

473
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The beginning was very, very difficult and it is currently very, very difficult.

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I always question if I'm doing a good job. I hope I'm doing a good job.

475
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I feel like I'm doing right by the people on the team. And I feel like we're gonna make something

476
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that is beneficial both externally and internally. The end of 2024, the little sliver at the end

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that I was there for was a lot of discovery. What do we have?

478
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What are we good at? What do we know? What parts are not working?

479
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What parts are working? 2025 was very much restructuring the team,

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realigning on goals. The thing that I wrote earlier,

481
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trying to figure out what drives us, what things do we care about? What is our North Star?

482
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And hiring and training and building.

483
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2025 has been all about building what the lab is.

484
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And then 2026 will be more about like emergence.

485
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We're planning on publishing more on our own platforms, on other people's platforms,

486
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other people's platforms being like LTD or ShortCircuit or whatever.

487
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We wanna have more articles going up. Hopefully eventually we'll have a Labs channel of our own.

488
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We can just keep pushing more stuff like that. I wanna be more open about what Labs is doing on Flow Plane.

489
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I wanna talk to you more, stuff like that. Corey said, with your high work ethic and busy schedule,

490
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have you ever felt burnt out? How do you deal with it? I've felt tired.

491
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I don't think I've ever truly felt burnt out. In a weird way, I often actually don't like what I do,

492
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but I like what we do, and I see value in what I do in the system as it works.

493
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I don't like just sitting in meetings all the time. I don't like debating things.

494
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I don't like, in a lot of ways, managing.

495
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But I think I can bring benefit there.

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I think I can help people and help teams and drive things forward. So I apply myself.

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Roxas712 said, as a current director of technology who has a path to CEO, what advice or tips can you offer

498
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from your own experience as CTO? My own experience as CTO has been very strange.

499
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,560
That title for most of its existence was nebulous

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in its legitimacy the whole time. If I can offer any advice,

501
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it's just understand that most of everything you do will always be seen in a negative light.

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No one likes the software that they use for their job.

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I don't know a single person at any company that feels that way.

504
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I don't know a single person at any company that feels really great about the hardware

505
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that they have to use for their job. People hate the tools that are in front of them

506
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because they will never be perfect, and that will always be frustrating.

507
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And just try to embrace the fact that it's not a personal thing.

508
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Just do your best to do right by the people that are gonna rely on you to have good stuff.

509
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Care about their input, but yeah, I don't take it too personally.

510
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Methods visit word. I'm so sorry.

511
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:09,320
How often do you speak with Linus? Not including WAN Show. Usually, literally, not at all.

512
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Or maybe a couple of Discord messages back and forth.

513
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But other times, a ton. Just kinda depends what's going on.

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Thanks for watching. Apparently I can talk. That was over an hour long, Sammy tells me.

515
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So if you wanna see probably another really long talk,

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tune in Wednesday. I'll be sitting down with Riley talking about AI stuff.

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So, you know, we can just go. Thanks for checking out Luke Week.

518
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Thanks for checking out Flowplain. Thanks for being subscribed. Thanks to Sammy for existing.

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I'll see you guys later.