Welcome to Luke week, everyone. You guys submitted your questions on full plane
and I am here to answer them, or at least that's what I think a Q and A
is supposed to function as. The first one is from something random
and they said, what is your job? Yeah, I think this also blends in with the next question,
which is from Crystal Fear, Crystal Fire.
They say, how many titles do you have now between full plane and LMG?
So I'm gonna kind of bundle these two together. So on the full plane side, I'm the COO,
fairly nebulous, it doesn't really mean much. I do basically all of the overarching roles at full plane.
I have done most of the creative recruitment.
I led the direction for, if we were gonna do the whole sauce plus thing or not,
it's for full plane itself, which is different than full plane in the company,
but for the full plane service and website, I'm like the product owner and overall direction person.
I don't do individual tasking. That team is very senior, extremely knowledgeable,
knows what they're doing, very hardworking. I don't need to be on them. I can just give them a target
and they'll absolutely smash right through it, which is fantastic.
That includes also the Labs website, where it's a very similar situation
with like Dan Siegel more directly running that team, but I say high level with it, give general direction.
That this theme continues with Conrad and the Creator Warehouse store, lttstore.com,
where there's like this idea of,
oh, we're gonna have to do this thing. Let's kind of ideate on the concept,
but then Conrad's the one doing everything and including a significant portion of the ideation,
sometimes all of it, and then running through with those projects.
Tyler is another one. He's kind of like internal tools. So he's working on like a bot to interface
between Airtable and Teams, and he's done reporting tools for us in the past,
so we can see like what's going on with the lttstore and make sure that that team can get charts and data
on what's happening on lttstore in terms of sales
and incoming products and all this other kind of jazz. He's also worked with Peter in the past
on an inventory system that we have, and he built a tool when he was pretty early on here
where the editors were working with Whisper, but back then Whisper was command line interface only,
so he made a GUI for it so that the editors didn't have to be in there
tippy-tapping in command lines. So all of that kind of stuff
is under my Flow Plane COO title. I do a lot of the budgeting for Flow Plane.
I do general company direction. I do yada, yada, yada.
So I fit a lot of the like kind of C-level things
for Flow Plane. Moving over to LMG. I have Head of Labs and CTO.
Now Head of Labs, you would kind of think would report into CTO.
So the fact that I have Head of Labs is a little weird. I probably don't actually need it.
I just got it because the previous person, Gary, who is in the role, had that title.
So when I took his responsibilities, they gave me the title, but realistically it kind of flows into itself
and isn't necessarily necessary. So let's just really talk about CTO.
Under there I have IT, which again, I'm fairly high level on
because AJ, who's from the Flow Plane team, is actually managing the IT
for Linus Media Group as well. But I do direction, guidance, product ownership,
that type of stuff. Outside of IT, there's also then Labs,
which is where the Head of Labs comes from. Labs has two supervisors in it, Nick and Lucas.
Lucas runs test development.
So of a new vertical, like we've been working on headphones with DMS for a while.
Lucas is heading that up. He's DMS' reporting line.
But Lucas also does some other things where he manages writing within Labs as well.
And then Nick manages software development and testing.
And then Nick and Lucas report up into me.
So again, I'm more high level at this point,
direction, stuff like that. Not so much individual tasking and micromanagement,
which I hate anyways, and I don't think is a good management method
for anyone, let alone me. But then I also do stuff outside of my roles.
So I kind of advise for other sections of the company
and try to work on overall company direction and stuff. At this point, I've existed in this system for so long.
Someone working in the YouTube space for 15 years.
It's a space that moves really fast and is very complicated.
And I've been in it the whole time. So I can kind of advise across the company's org
at this point. It doesn't mean I'm doing everything. That doesn't mean I'm in way too many meetings.
It doesn't mean I'm actually making a lot of these decisions across the org,
but I try to give my input when I can. And hopefully that even slightly answers your question.
It's, I ask this question of myself decently often.
Like, what the hell am I doing? Every week is very different,
but it's a big part of the reason why I like the job. The next one from Flucey.
If you had an extra four hours a day, what would you spend them on? Probably sleep, to be honest.
Sleeping or like working out is probably it.
How much sleep did you get today? I think I got five and a half hours today
and I didn't work out yesterday. So yeah, it would be a split between sleeping
and working out. The thing that I often lose out the most on,
which makes me really sad is either working out or sleep.
So if I had four extra hours, it would be one of those two. The correct answer is spend time
with your lovely girlfriend. She can do both of those things with me, Sammy.
And a Maxter asks, what do you think is the best and worst outcome of the AI bubble?
The worst outcome is people lose homes and their lives are ruined and things suck,
which happens when stock markets crash.
The best outcome is I think probably decently similar
to what happened after, in certain degrees, obviously,
to what happened after the dot-com crash, just where we see more realistic things
start to happen after the market kind of adjusts back down.
The second part of this person's question was, and also there's more AI stuff coming later this week.
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?
There's lots of work out there. Well, I mean, a lot less now
that there's been 10 trillion layoffs, but there is work out there for React Devs.
JavaScript is going nowhere. Stay up to date on different frameworks and just keep going.
Huge fanboy. Besides chicken, what do you love eating the most?
Meal or ingredient? Nachos. I will genuinely think less of any restaurant
if they don't have nachos. I almost don't care what restaurant it is.
I would love to eat sushi after eating nachos.
I would love to eat anything after eating nachos.
I could also just be fine with nachos and then more nachos.
That would be okay. Philidian asks, if a genie granted you three wishes
to use on Flowplain, what would they be? The life of the people on the team
was easier and less stressful. I know it's been tough.
We've been a pretty small team forever, been a little bit hard and expensive and whatnot
to grow the team, but we're trying. And they've been, a lot of people that are on that team
have been through a lot at this point. So I kind of, I wish their road here was easier.
I am happy and have no regrets
over the people that we hired. I absolutely love the people on the team.
It would be pretty nice if they were all here
and I could work with them in office, but I think we have found a ton of success
through our remote model. And it's cool that some of them are kind of centralizing
in a particular area right now that I'm not gonna disclose, but I think that's cool
because having a sense of community is fantastic. And then the last one would be
if we were a little bit less ambitious early on
with our features so that at this point in time,
we didn't have things like live streaming kind of looming over us,
where there's like one creator on the platform that does live streaming.
They do it one time a week and it takes a very disproportionate amount of effort
to keep things there ship shape. And I just, I wish we never did live streaming.
Andrew Candy says, regardless of development stage, viability,
or likelihood of success, which emerging technology would you be most excited for?
Something to do with batteries. Batteries and charging sucks and they're heavy
and they're annoying and they're dangerous. And a lot of them are like conflict minerals
where they're like morally dubious to use in any way.
I wish there was, I know there's some work on this, some like salt based thing where it's plentiful and easy
and less dangerous and higher capacities and stuff.
That would be, that would be fantastic. That or, and I've read the chips and cheese article on it.
I get it, CISC versus risk and they think CISC is better
and x86 is still here to say and all that fun stuff. But it would be nice if open risk-based processors
were like more of a thing. I'm getting so tired of closed systems these days.
We're seeing the downsides of it with Microsoft and how everything is starting to insert ads everywhere
and it's owning your entire life and it sucks. And open systems are becoming like necessary
in every possible way. And that's one of them. BioFlash asks, if you were in the position of Linus,
what would you have done differently? A lot, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it would have all been good.
If I was in Linus's position, I seriously doubt we would have ever made a screwdriver
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.
I just don't have that mind for products necessarily
in the way that he does. I think we would have grown a lot slower
in a much more measured way. At the same time, one of the reasons for that
is that I would personally wanted to mess with things
and experiment potentially a little bit more often, but there is a dangerous side of that.
And I would have resisted growing the company too fast
in order to be able to absorb those things potentially easier. Again, these are things that are not necessarily better,
but you asked differently not what would you have improved.
Like there's something I'm gonna be trying to, I'm probably gonna pitch on Wanshow today actually,
which is that we changed how ShortCircuit works to go back to a very old style filming that we had.
If you look way back to the GTX 980 review in 2014,
the method of filming that we had was Linus would present and then I would present the benchmarking results
and then the video would go back to Linus for a little bit and then end. When the product comes in,
it just goes straight to somebody on ShortCircuit. They unbox it on camera first time
and talk about their experience with it. And then it cuts to somebody in Labs afterwards
who gets the product after the ShortCircuit people and they talk about the benchmarking there,
harkening all the way back to those like old reviews that we did just to split things up.
That's something that I would do differently. That's much more recent.
I've been pretty open about how I would have done the Labs completely differently from the beginning.
We're still kind of getting to that vision.
I don't know, if I was in charge, the company would probably be a lot smaller,
a lot less successful in a total revenue standpoint,
but there are things that personally, in a biased headstrong fashion, I think would be better
and there's things that I know would be worse. Simply Nintendo asks,
is there going to be any exciting tech in the new space if so what?
I don't fully understand what this means. What I'm going to take it as
is there going to be any new exciting tech
in its own space.
And the way that I'll take that is that I think AR glasses feel like the future.
If you look at the ShortCircuit channel, that video Riley did on the Meta glasses just popped off
very differently to Google Glass back in the day. I'm actually seeing a lot of people walking around
wearing various smart glasses, mostly the Metas. I really hope any company, pretty much any company
other than Meta figures this out. That feels like the direction that things are going in.
It feels like VR is kind of less interesting to people these days, unless Valve does it.
It feels like the mixed reality stuff
that Samsung and Apple are doing didn't really catch on,
but these AR glasses seem to be the thing.
Aperson545 asks, hi, what are some tech essentials
for most gamers? Hot take, most stuff that people are interested in
if they're watching this channel is excess.
I think some of my most prime gaming years
were with pretty junk stuff. For the vast majority of people,
most things are going to be okay. And what I would focus on if I were you
is things that resonate with you nicely. Do you like how that keyboard feels?
Do you like how that mouse feels to use? Do you like a really light mouse?
Prioritize a really light mouse. A lot of mice these days,
the latency to the computer is really solid. So find one that you'd like to use and feels good for you.
If you're not going literal pro, it's probably okay.
Shroud might be able to tell the difference between some like incredible monitor
and an incredible mouse and how those interact with each other and whatnot.
Is it going to happen to me? I think I'm pretty okay at most games.
The answer is no, I'm not going to notice at all. PC master rays said based on the last 15 to 20 years,
how would you say your attitude towards achieving personal success has evolved if at all,
alongside the positive changes in personal financial security over the same time period?
I think about this a very weird amount maybe. I don't know, is this something you think about often?
Like what would kid me think about where I am now? I'll be like, he's living the dream.
Okay, but do you think about that ever? No, I think about that like weekly.
Really? Oh, I'm not even kidding. That's a constant thought process for me.
I remember when I was a kid, I had this idea. There was this road not too far from my parents house
and there was a rancher on it. And I remember thinking, I'd love to own kind of a smaller place like that
because when I was a kid, owning a house seemed detainable.
I want to own a smaller place like that, have a dog, have a girlfriend or wife that I like a lot
and just try to live pretty easy. Work kind of as little as possible,
play a bunch of video games, play sports, hang out with my friends and just have a good, nice, easy life.
And then now I have three titles and no one can describe what my job is.
So things have changed a bit in terms of attitude. I think a lot of that is just because of feeling ownership
over this thing and feeling responsibility for the people
that I lead, the people on my teams, any of the teams,
the full plane side, the LMG side, it doesn't matter. Feeling responsibility for making sure
that they are as equipped as possible for their personal success and stuff
has been very internally rewarding for me. The dollar's not as much for me personally.
I find a lot more reward through working with people
and seeing overall team success. I've always been very into team success.
That goes back to sports and everything else. Like solo sports, I was never that interested in.
Team sports, I was extremely interested in. I've always had this type of mentality.
I'm not against my old dreams.
I'm just not there right now, and that's okay. I think old me would be proud of where I'm at.
I feel like I'm generally doing the right things. Obviously there's mistakes all the time,
but I like to think that I'm mostly approaching things appropriately and that previous and future me
would be okay with what I'm currently doing. I think there will be regrets for how little sleep I get
and the lack of certain things that I wish I could do more of.
But I think I can get there eventually. And the positive changes in personal financial security.
I mean, that is nice, but I intentionally live
below my means and that will always be true. I do not have a particular taste
for overly expensive things. If I can eat at decently nice places,
if I can take a vacation now and then hang out with friends,
do some things like that, I'm gonna be really happy. I don't need a fancy car.
I love and adore my car. My car's from 2009, is it Acura?
It had its first unscheduled repair ever yesterday.
It was $400. I love that car. Dan, the WAN Man Floaty says,
if cost time and resources weren't a problem, what would you develop if you could?
I have a perfect answer for this. It's called vinegar.
I had this idea years ago. If one of you wanna do it, please do it.
If you take my name, wrote me in there somehow. So the reason why it's called vinegar
is because it was to counter honey. And no, this is not because of the honey controversy.
I had this thought years ago. The grand vision was it was fully user configurable.
So you could decide the things that you cared about, and then it would help you avoid certain companies.
So if you're like, I wanna work with companies that are good for the environment,
or they stand for a certain social issue that I care about, or whatever else,
it would like on Amazon ward you away from there.
The main reason why I wanted it, so the social issue that I would want to check off mostly
is the death of brick and mortar. I don't want that to happen.
I personally try to basically never shop on Amazon.
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
that is part of this problem. The thing that I wanted to do was when I went
onto a page on Amazon, I wanted it to tell me
where else I could buy this thing from.
How do I not buy it from here? The idea kind of moved on from there,
because something that I find is people will try to avoid, say Nestle, because they're like,
I don't like Nestle as a company. But Nestle makes freaking everything.
So it's hard to figure out if this product is actually from Nestle or not.
So if you're like, I want to avoid Nestle products. If you're on Amazon, it would be like,
here's the other place that you can buy it, but as a heads up, this goes against the things
that you listed so you can decide to buy it or not.
So it's like an anti-honey, where it's not incentivizing you to buy the thing,
because it's like, oh, it's cheaper. It's going, hmm, maybe reconsider based on the factors
that you laid out, you individually, I don't want the platform to make any decisions.
And also you can buy it at these other places. Make that thing.
I want someone to do it. I laid out all the specs, and then I realized how incredibly hard that is to make.
And then I didn't do it. Andrew A asks, what are your current favorite YouTubers?
I've been watching a lot of speed with three E's.
I've been watching a bunch of big A, Mythical Kitchen, Level One Tex, Eddie Burback is hilarious.
Zack the Bold is fantastic. Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff.
Nerdlaw says, what benefits would you want to see
from current AI development, and what scares you the most?
Benefits that I'd like to see is the like, renaissance movement where individuals are empowered
to create more than they ever have been in the past,
and the empowerment of individuals
over the empowerment of corporations. What scares you the most? The empowerment of corporations over individuals.
It's the opposite side of the coin. I am very hopeful for the aspect of individuals
being able to rise up and find personal success more easily through the use of AI.
I'm also very concerned of corporate use of AI,
crushing the job market and making it so that it's like, impossible for people to get started
and increasing the class divide and class gap.
Luke Stuck, in a recent WAN Show,
you said your family was a big sports family. What sports did you play and what was your favorite?
I played football, I played rugby, I played hockey, I played one little tiny season of tennis.
I did rowing for a little bit. I played soccer. I technically played basketball.
No, I didn't play badminton. I'm trying to think.
There's probably other stuff in there. Did I say football already? Probably. I think football was probably my favorite.
Ball hockey. I don't know if I even mentioned it, ball hockey. Ball hockey would be my favorite.
Ball hockey I played the most. It was great.
Football's a close second, but ball hockey's number one for sure. Kerry says, what is your favorite thing
about your relationship with Linus outside of employment? Linus is a very good driver, good inspiration.
There are many times where I think I'm doing quite well
with something and everyone around me is saying that I'm doing quite well with the thing
and he'll look at it and be like, I think you're capable of more and here's why.
And then I'll sit there and be like, damn it.
And then try to get it done.
And it's often good and has driven me to higher heights.
So it's a lot easier. It's less confrontational for a lot of people
to just celebrate wins. He will often be like, cool and next, which is good.
Galaxy SG says, what is one thing you wish you had done
differently when creating Floatplane? I'm not a person who strongly hangs on regrets.
I think a lot of the things that happened
in the creation of Floatplane, needed to happen to inform future decisions.
And I think if we did them differently, we might've just ran it to a different pit
followed a different time. I, there's some easy low hanging fruit.
I wish we never did live streaming. Sales was a bad decision.
I wish we went somewhere else with that. In both of those cases, well, less so in live streaming.
With sales, there was no way for us to know that until way down the line.
And I don't see us ever making a different decision
with the information that we had at the time. I respect the team and the decision at that time.
I was part of it. I'm not trying to show responsibility at all to be very clear.
It did make a bunch of things more difficult later on,
but that's part of it. I don't think changing any individual thing
would have necessarily been a net good because we had a lot of learnings from it
other than maybe freaking live streaming and working with PayPal.
Captain observant, you're known for being frugal. What are some things you're not frugal about?
Thanks for not saying cheap, by the way. There is a difference.
I don't think I'm frugal on, I don't know. What do you think, Sammy?
You've traveled with me and stuff? I don't know, because every time I see you, it's the same backpack, same shirts.
I think when we go out for food, you're like, I'll get this and you don't think about it.
That's true. I think my usual line is experiences.
If we're eating out at a cool restaurant in a foreign country and I see something that looks
interesting, I'm gonna try to go for it. That also bleeds into other things as well,
but my ideal experiences don't necessarily line up
with other people's ideal experiences, which is another thing that leads to people thinking
that I'm being particularly frugal, when I might not even be, I just want the other thing.
Like I'm not gonna spring for really fancy hotels.
I am gonna spring for weird hotels in the middle of nowhere,
which might lead me to having off the road, weirder, less common, hopefully grounded
with the people of that area experiences. Like one of my favorite things ever was in the mountains
of Alishan in Taiwan, Emma and I went to this place
that I don't know the full name translated to English,
but I think it's like shoe size 11 or something.
11 is in it, the Arabic numeral 11 is in the name,
so you can find it that way, but for 24 hours, you could just stay with a mountain tribe in Alishan
and pick tea and cut down bamboo and cook rice in the bamboo
and see some of their practices and how they do things.
That was amazing. That's an experience for me that like,
if the bank account can take it, I'm gonna spend to make that happen.
There was parts of that work that were expensive. I had to take a really long bullet train to get down there.
We had to stay overnight at a hotel. We had to get a long taxi way up into the mountains.
The next day we had to get a long taxi down out of the mountains the day after.
None of that was cheap, but it was an incredible life memory.
I'll also spend money on my pets for vet bills
and things like that, the people around me, my family, stuff like that.
I also get sentimental over things. Sammy mentioned, I see the same backpacks.
My like red backpack has been with me on every single trip I've done for like a decade.
That has value to me. A new one that looks great
doesn't particularly have value to me. The fact that this one has been everywhere with me,
it's held together, it's still holding together. It has scars from something that happened.
It has marks from things that happened. That holds so much value to me over some new shiny product.
I like those types of things. It's one of the things with my car. Every time I get into my car,
there's, I feel appreciation for it. And it's been there and bad times has been there and good.
I like my car, I don't want anything else. Jim, Jim Daru asks, what's your favorite,
what's your most liked slash favorite and least liked slash favorite thing you own?
Tech or non-tech related? People or animals included. What's going on, Jim?
I don't own her, but I'm gonna say Emma. Least favorite.
I don't think you have one. Yeah, I know. Or teams. Teams.
I don't actually own that, the company does, but teams, screw teams. What percentage of your daily time is spent in meetings?
Give me a second. Just this week, my time spent in meetings was 32 hours.
Jesus Christ. That doesn't include anything that isn't on Google Calendar.
So impromptu meetings, outside of hours unscheduled meetings.
I had five hours of calls unscheduled
outside of hours last night. Those were not included in that number.
We had a meeting before the shoot and we're having probably one after this too.
Yep. Both unscheduled.
So it's actually, it's more than that. And then I said, do you wish it was less
or do meetings work well for you? I absolutely wish it was less. I like to position myself as a form of like shield
between outside parts of the company, outside parts of the world and my team.
So I would rather deal with the meetings
and the anything that could create blockages
or annoyances for people on my team instead of them dealing with it. So I try to deal with as much of that
and put it on me as I possibly can. But that doesn't mean that I like it.
And I do hope to reduce those, but I don't hope to reduce those by shirking them off onto people on my team.
Yo-Hank said, best movie ever. Dark Rainbow replied with 90% chance of him saying hackers.
That person's right. But to subvert expectations,
I'm gonna instead of just saying movie, my family's been starting to rewatch
Lord of the Rings again. Oh, that's hard to beat. Adam Skeedoo said,
have you got any cool ideas slash goals that you would like to investigate and accomplish with the Labs?
Yeah, but my current line for the Labs is like that I'm more thinking kind of vision
right now with the lab. And the reason why I say that is because...
So one, cool ideas are goals I'd like to investigate and accomplish.
A goal for the lab for me is for it to, this is something Nick Harrison,
the lab and I have talked about extensively is that we want it to feel like a Bill Nye lab.
And what does that actually mean? Neither of us have watched Bill Nye the Science Guy since we were in like elementary school.
So it's a little hard to remember, but the feeling that we had at that time was that there was fun questions asked
and we went along the journey of answering them
and experiencing it. So I wrote this thing called The Way,
which I absolutely stole from Star Wars, My Bad. And it's five bullet points of like
how you should decide to do things or not within the Labs.
That's not final. I don't know why I even share that with you guys,
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
it has the potential to become. I want us to have a YouTube channel for it.
We need to start working slightly in different ways as time goes on.
But that to me is a cool idea of this like technical machine
that you can ask questions of it and it will output cool, interesting answers
and bring you along the journey. So I hope that's how that becomes.
Noki, good old Noki. Shout out Noki said,
a few times on the WAN Show you've expressed your interest in building a new mineral cool PC, blah, blah, blah, blah.
If it was closed off, how would it be dangerous? Leaks, even the thermal take systems
aren't like perfectly closed off. I just don't trust it on a percent.
When it comes to the health of the birds,
they have this innate ability to just die at any moment.
And it's just not worth the risk when I could just have a normal computer. Mr. J. Cops says,
where does one draw discipline from to stay fit? I mean, I struggle with that now.
It's not out of desire to stay fit. It's out of, I just have no freaking time.
So sometimes I have a really hard time getting to the gym. In my opinion, don't scream at me.
Especially once you hit a certain age, I think you just have to.
The body is generally a machine that requires movement.
And if you're not doing that, a lot of modern life,
Uber Eats, Netflix, all these different things promote this idea of being extremely sedentary.
And if you do that in my experience, my lived experience,
is that things start to kind of shut down. You start feeling like crap mentally, physically,
and to stave off that demon, you have to go be physically active.
It doesn't mean you have to go in the gym and do deadlifts,
but you got to find something that works for you. And I think you just have to.
And that can involve like one of the ways that I do it is playing Pokemon Go.
Pokemon Go is a dopamine machine that gets me walking.
That is the only, it's a terrible game. If you want to get into it because you're like,
oh, it's probably so sick. It is not sick. It is actually just a bad game,
but it is also a dopamine machine. And if you play it the way that you want to play it,
instead of getting into remote raiding and all that other crap that, again,
promotes keeping you at home, sitting on the couch, if you only play it when you're out and moving and stuff,
you can use it to get you out there, get you moving. Find people that will be fun to hang out with.
Join a biking club or something and go biking with people. Join a running club.
Find a workout buddy, go to the gym, do something. I think it's highly beneficial for everyone.
Chocolate Ducks said, do anything big lately.
Labs has been going on a world tour of sorts,
which has all been in America, but they'd like hearing that. We've gone to Intel, we've gone to Qualcomm,
we've gone to NVIDIA, we're hoping to get AMD on there.
We're trying to see what other Labs are doing
for performance testing and how they conduct it and all that kind of stuff. See what their approaches are.
See how off we are. The answer has been not that far off, which is really cool.
Did you vlog it? No. No! Pethor says, where do you see
full playing going in the next 10 years? I mean, there's tons, obviously. There's usability progress all the time.
We're always making minor steps forward for accessibility.
There's usability progress, or technical slash usability progress that we're going to be seeing
in regards to TV apps and other various apps.
This is Jaden's idea, and it's wonderful,
and I want to see it through, which is we want to kind of divert
how full-plane has been acting, where instead of everybody's just on full-plane,
full-plane is the home, you have to come here to see everything. People have kind of their own homes.
So you could go to like a Linus Tech Tip specific,
or Linus Media Group, let's say, specific website and then see just our stuff there,
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,
where there's the Shop app, if you're unfamiliar with it, basically there's one place that you can go
that has all the different stores on Shopify on it, but you can also just go to lttstore.com
and buy stuff there, or whatever other website that's on Shopify.
We want to kind of make it so that the creators on full-plane have their own websites
that are kind of their own experiences, but it's a full-plane login, it's full-plane payments,
but the rest of it is all theirs. And we can make that for them,
but it's their experiences, their home. Most people on full-plane are subscribing to one creator.
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.
Amazing idea from Jaden, or Jaden and Peter,
or both of them, or Peter or something. I don't remember exactly where it originated,
but it was over there. I really want to try to champion that and push that forward.
I think it's brilliant. And I really do think that is the future of full-plane,
because the thing that we've always really enjoyed doing is the technical side of things.
So if we can just give people the ability to have their own space on the internet, that's awesome.
And I think that's something we could excel at. Brooke Solis.
Brooke? Brooke? Brooke? What was the spark that led you into the tech space?
Any fun tech-related projects when you were a kid? My dad gave me a computer to work on
when I was really young and didn't know anything. And he let me just wrench on it, however I pleased.
My dad has a fun story that, when he was getting married to my mom,
he kind of leaned in, someone else was saying something, but they were up at the front and was like,
I bought a computer this morning. My dad's always been into computers.
He got me into computers for sure. He was the spark.
Cloudy Cat said, we know you lied on your resume, but how much did you lie?
My education and job experience were accurate. I also included my computer.
The job was specifically asking for someone with camera experience.
And I said that I had photography and videography and editing experience.
That was all a lie. I didn't say it was for a job, I just said I had it.
I had actually technically never filmed anything of any form at that point in time.
I had never recorded a video when I applied.
I got a buddy of mine to approve me attaching
some videos that he had made and some pictures that he had taken,
fairly confident that I could just watch YouTube videos and learn how to do it.
And I did that. And then in the interview, for some reason,
I admitted that I made all that up. And he was like, okay, well,
let's have you film something right now and see how it goes. And I did.
And then that video was uploaded and I bent the rules again
because he was like, we'll see what the commenters say. And I was like, great, thanks for telling me that.
And then I went and got all of my friends that I knew to comment on the video
and say it was like the best thing ever filmed. I spread that far and wide.
I generated multiple accounts myself.
A bunch of those comments are me. And then I got the job and I'm still here.
Dark Rainbow said, how did you feel at first when you're appointed to the head of Labs?
Were you worried that you might not be able to do a good job? How do you figure it out eventually?
How did you figure it out eventually? Very gracious for you to say that I figured it out eventually.
Yeah, I was worried. I was very worried. I had talked a lot of crap publicly and privately
about what was going on in the Labs. And then it was time to put up or shut up in a way.
The beginning was very, very difficult and it is currently very, very difficult.
I always question if I'm doing a good job. I hope I'm doing a good job.
I feel like I'm doing right by the people on the team. And I feel like we're gonna make something
that is beneficial both externally and internally. The end of 2024, the little sliver at the end
that I was there for was a lot of discovery. What do we have?
What are we good at? What do we know? What parts are not working?
What parts are working? 2025 was very much restructuring the team,
realigning on goals. The thing that I wrote earlier,
trying to figure out what drives us, what things do we care about? What is our North Star?
And hiring and training and building.
2025 has been all about building what the lab is.
And then 2026 will be more about like emergence.
We're planning on publishing more on our own platforms, on other people's platforms,
other people's platforms being like LTD or ShortCircuit or whatever.
We wanna have more articles going up. Hopefully eventually we'll have a Labs channel of our own.
We can just keep pushing more stuff like that. I wanna be more open about what Labs is doing on Flow Plane.
I wanna talk to you more, stuff like that. Corey said, with your high work ethic and busy schedule,
have you ever felt burnt out? How do you deal with it? I've felt tired.
I don't think I've ever truly felt burnt out. In a weird way, I often actually don't like what I do,
but I like what we do, and I see value in what I do in the system as it works.
I don't like just sitting in meetings all the time. I don't like debating things.
I don't like, in a lot of ways, managing.
But I think I can bring benefit there.
I think I can help people and help teams and drive things forward. So I apply myself.
Roxas712 said, as a current director of technology who has a path to CEO, what advice or tips can you offer
from your own experience as CTO? My own experience as CTO has been very strange.
That title for most of its existence was nebulous
in its legitimacy the whole time. If I can offer any advice,
it's just understand that most of everything you do will always be seen in a negative light.
No one likes the software that they use for their job.
I don't know a single person at any company that feels that way.
I don't know a single person at any company that feels really great about the hardware
that they have to use for their job. People hate the tools that are in front of them
because they will never be perfect, and that will always be frustrating.
And just try to embrace the fact that it's not a personal thing.
Just do your best to do right by the people that are gonna rely on you to have good stuff.
Care about their input, but yeah, I don't take it too personally.
Methods visit word. I'm so sorry.
How often do you speak with Linus? Not including WAN Show. Usually, literally, not at all.
Or maybe a couple of Discord messages back and forth.
But other times, a ton. Just kinda depends what's going on.
Thanks for watching. Apparently I can talk. That was over an hour long, Sammy tells me.
So if you wanna see probably another really long talk,
tune in Wednesday. I'll be sitting down with Riley talking about AI stuff.
So, you know, we can just go. Thanks for checking out Luke Week.
Thanks for checking out Flowplain. Thanks for being subscribed. Thanks to Sammy for existing.
I'll see you guys later.