WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.380 Welcome to Luke week, everyone. You guys submitted your questions on full plane 00:00:03.380 --> 00:00:06.740 and I am here to answer them, or at least that's what I think a Q and A 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:10.940 is supposed to function as. The first one is from something random 00:00:10.940 --> 00:00:16.500 and they said, what is your job? Yeah, I think this also blends in with the next question, 00:00:16.500 --> 00:00:20.020 which is from Crystal Fear, Crystal Fire. 00:00:20.020 --> 00:00:23.140 They say, how many titles do you have now between full plane and LMG? 00:00:23.140 --> 00:00:27.060 So I'm gonna kind of bundle these two together. So on the full plane side, I'm the COO, 00:00:27.060 --> 00:00:31.220 fairly nebulous, it doesn't really mean much. I do basically all of the overarching roles at full plane. 00:00:31.220 --> 00:00:34.420 I have done most of the creative recruitment. 00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:39.380 I led the direction for, if we were gonna do the whole sauce plus thing or not, 00:00:39.380 --> 00:00:42.780 it's for full plane itself, which is different than full plane in the company, 00:00:42.780 --> 00:00:48.740 but for the full plane service and website, I'm like the product owner and overall direction person. 00:00:48.740 --> 00:00:53.220 I don't do individual tasking. That team is very senior, extremely knowledgeable, 00:00:53.220 --> 00:00:57.380 knows what they're doing, very hardworking. I don't need to be on them. I can just give them a target 00:00:57.380 --> 00:01:00.620 and they'll absolutely smash right through it, which is fantastic. 00:01:00.620 --> 00:01:04.860 That includes also the Labs website, where it's a very similar situation 00:01:04.860 --> 00:01:10.140 with like Dan Siegel more directly running that team, but I say high level with it, give general direction. 00:01:10.140 --> 00:01:17.660 That this theme continues with Conrad and the Creator Warehouse store, lttstore.com, 00:01:17.660 --> 00:01:20.700 where there's like this idea of, 00:01:20.700 --> 00:01:25.420 oh, we're gonna have to do this thing. Let's kind of ideate on the concept, 00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:30.940 but then Conrad's the one doing everything and including a significant portion of the ideation, 00:01:30.940 --> 00:01:35.300 sometimes all of it, and then running through with those projects. 00:01:35.300 --> 00:01:41.060 Tyler is another one. He's kind of like internal tools. So he's working on like a bot to interface 00:01:41.060 --> 00:01:45.700 between Airtable and Teams, and he's done reporting tools for us in the past, 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:51.660 so we can see like what's going on with the lttstore and make sure that that team can get charts and data 00:01:51.660 --> 00:01:54.700 on what's happening on lttstore in terms of sales 00:01:54.700 --> 00:01:58.980 and incoming products and all this other kind of jazz. He's also worked with Peter in the past 00:01:58.980 --> 00:02:03.780 on an inventory system that we have, and he built a tool when he was pretty early on here 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:08.380 where the editors were working with Whisper, but back then Whisper was command line interface only, 00:02:08.380 --> 00:02:11.460 so he made a GUI for it so that the editors didn't have to be in there 00:02:11.460 --> 00:02:16.500 tippy-tapping in command lines. So all of that kind of stuff 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:20.780 is under my Flow Plane COO title. I do a lot of the budgeting for Flow Plane. 00:02:20.780 --> 00:02:23.860 I do general company direction. I do yada, yada, yada. 00:02:23.860 --> 00:02:27.060 So I fit a lot of the like kind of C-level things 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:31.700 for Flow Plane. Moving over to LMG. I have Head of Labs and CTO. 00:02:31.700 --> 00:02:35.540 Now Head of Labs, you would kind of think would report into CTO. 00:02:35.540 --> 00:02:39.820 So the fact that I have Head of Labs is a little weird. I probably don't actually need it. 00:02:39.820 --> 00:02:43.220 I just got it because the previous person, Gary, who is in the role, had that title. 00:02:43.220 --> 00:02:47.260 So when I took his responsibilities, they gave me the title, but realistically it kind of flows into itself 00:02:47.260 --> 00:02:51.140 and isn't necessarily necessary. So let's just really talk about CTO. 00:02:51.140 --> 00:02:54.740 Under there I have IT, which again, I'm fairly high level on 00:02:54.740 --> 00:02:58.780 because AJ, who's from the Flow Plane team, is actually managing the IT 00:02:58.780 --> 00:03:04.300 for Linus Media Group as well. But I do direction, guidance, product ownership, 00:03:04.300 --> 00:03:08.500 that type of stuff. Outside of IT, there's also then Labs, 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:12.860 which is where the Head of Labs comes from. Labs has two supervisors in it, Nick and Lucas. 00:03:12.860 --> 00:03:16.500 Lucas runs test development. 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:20.020 So of a new vertical, like we've been working on headphones with DMS for a while. 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:23.860 Lucas is heading that up. He's DMS' reporting line. 00:03:23.860 --> 00:03:27.820 But Lucas also does some other things where he manages writing within Labs as well. 00:03:27.820 --> 00:03:30.900 And then Nick manages software development and testing. 00:03:30.900 --> 00:03:34.260 And then Nick and Lucas report up into me. 00:03:34.260 --> 00:03:37.500 So again, I'm more high level at this point, 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:41.900 direction, stuff like that. Not so much individual tasking and micromanagement, 00:03:41.900 --> 00:03:45.460 which I hate anyways, and I don't think is a good management method 00:03:45.460 --> 00:03:48.980 for anyone, let alone me. But then I also do stuff outside of my roles. 00:03:48.980 --> 00:03:52.940 So I kind of advise for other sections of the company 00:03:52.940 --> 00:03:59.580 and try to work on overall company direction and stuff. At this point, I've existed in this system for so long. 00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:02.740 Someone working in the YouTube space for 15 years. 00:04:03.700 --> 00:04:07.540 It's a space that moves really fast and is very complicated. 00:04:07.540 --> 00:04:13.140 And I've been in it the whole time. So I can kind of advise across the company's org 00:04:13.140 --> 00:04:18.020 at this point. It doesn't mean I'm doing everything. That doesn't mean I'm in way too many meetings. 00:04:18.060 --> 00:04:21.060 It doesn't mean I'm actually making a lot of these decisions across the org, 00:04:21.060 --> 00:04:25.140 but I try to give my input when I can. And hopefully that even slightly answers your question. 00:04:25.140 --> 00:04:28.140 It's, I ask this question of myself decently often. 00:04:28.140 --> 00:04:31.900 Like, what the hell am I doing? Every week is very different, 00:04:31.900 --> 00:04:35.660 but it's a big part of the reason why I like the job. The next one from Flucey. 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:41.140 If you had an extra four hours a day, what would you spend them on? Probably sleep, to be honest. 00:04:41.140 --> 00:04:45.100 Sleeping or like working out is probably it. 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:48.500 How much sleep did you get today? I think I got five and a half hours today 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:51.740 and I didn't work out yesterday. So yeah, it would be a split between sleeping 00:04:51.740 --> 00:04:54.900 and working out. The thing that I often lose out the most on, 00:04:54.900 --> 00:04:58.780 which makes me really sad is either working out or sleep. 00:04:58.780 --> 00:05:01.860 So if I had four extra hours, it would be one of those two. The correct answer is spend time 00:05:01.860 --> 00:05:06.380 with your lovely girlfriend. She can do both of those things with me, Sammy. 00:05:06.380 --> 00:05:10.100 And a Maxter asks, what do you think is the best and worst outcome of the AI bubble? 00:05:10.100 --> 00:05:14.340 The worst outcome is people lose homes and their lives are ruined and things suck, 00:05:14.340 --> 00:05:17.700 which happens when stock markets crash. 00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:21.060 The best outcome is I think probably decently similar 00:05:21.060 --> 00:05:25.140 to what happened after, in certain degrees, obviously, 00:05:25.140 --> 00:05:28.460 to what happened after the dot-com crash, just where we see more realistic things 00:05:28.460 --> 00:05:31.660 start to happen after the market kind of adjusts back down. 00:05:31.660 --> 00:05:36.500 The second part of this person's question was, and also there's more AI stuff coming later this week. 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:41.140 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? 00:05:41.140 --> 00:05:44.460 There's lots of work out there. Well, I mean, a lot less now 00:05:44.460 --> 00:05:48.940 that there's been 10 trillion layoffs, but there is work out there for React Devs. 00:05:48.940 --> 00:05:52.700 JavaScript is going nowhere. Stay up to date on different frameworks and just keep going. 00:05:52.700 --> 00:05:55.860 Huge fanboy. Besides chicken, what do you love eating the most? 00:05:55.860 --> 00:06:02.300 Meal or ingredient? Nachos. I will genuinely think less of any restaurant 00:06:02.300 --> 00:06:06.380 if they don't have nachos. I almost don't care what restaurant it is. 00:06:06.380 --> 00:06:10.500 I would love to eat sushi after eating nachos. 00:06:10.500 --> 00:06:13.700 I would love to eat anything after eating nachos. 00:06:13.700 --> 00:06:17.820 I could also just be fine with nachos and then more nachos. 00:06:17.820 --> 00:06:22.500 That would be okay. Philidian asks, if a genie granted you three wishes 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:26.900 to use on Flowplain, what would they be? The life of the people on the team 00:06:26.900 --> 00:06:30.020 was easier and less stressful. I know it's been tough. 00:06:30.020 --> 00:06:34.860 We've been a pretty small team forever, been a little bit hard and expensive and whatnot 00:06:34.860 --> 00:06:40.420 to grow the team, but we're trying. And they've been, a lot of people that are on that team 00:06:40.420 --> 00:06:45.220 have been through a lot at this point. So I kind of, I wish their road here was easier. 00:06:45.220 --> 00:06:50.220 I am happy and have no regrets 00:06:50.380 --> 00:06:53.380 over the people that we hired. I absolutely love the people on the team. 00:06:53.380 --> 00:06:56.420 It would be pretty nice if they were all here 00:06:56.420 --> 00:07:00.500 and I could work with them in office, but I think we have found a ton of success 00:07:00.500 --> 00:07:04.460 through our remote model. And it's cool that some of them are kind of centralizing 00:07:04.460 --> 00:07:08.060 in a particular area right now that I'm not gonna disclose, but I think that's cool 00:07:08.060 --> 00:07:12.180 because having a sense of community is fantastic. And then the last one would be 00:07:12.180 --> 00:07:15.700 if we were a little bit less ambitious early on 00:07:15.700 --> 00:07:19.700 with our features so that at this point in time, 00:07:19.700 --> 00:07:23.100 we didn't have things like live streaming kind of looming over us, 00:07:23.100 --> 00:07:26.820 where there's like one creator on the platform that does live streaming. 00:07:26.820 --> 00:07:31.100 They do it one time a week and it takes a very disproportionate amount of effort 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:35.700 to keep things there ship shape. And I just, I wish we never did live streaming. 00:07:35.700 --> 00:07:38.780 Andrew Candy says, regardless of development stage, viability, 00:07:38.780 --> 00:07:42.780 or likelihood of success, which emerging technology would you be most excited for? 00:07:42.780 --> 00:07:48.980 Something to do with batteries. Batteries and charging sucks and they're heavy 00:07:48.980 --> 00:07:54.500 and they're annoying and they're dangerous. And a lot of them are like conflict minerals 00:07:54.500 --> 00:07:58.900 where they're like morally dubious to use in any way. 00:07:58.900 --> 00:08:04.500 I wish there was, I know there's some work on this, some like salt based thing where it's plentiful and easy 00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:08.500 and less dangerous and higher capacities and stuff. 00:08:08.540 --> 00:08:13.700 That would be, that would be fantastic. That or, and I've read the chips and cheese article on it. 00:08:13.700 --> 00:08:17.660 I get it, CISC versus risk and they think CISC is better 00:08:17.660 --> 00:08:22.820 and x86 is still here to say and all that fun stuff. But it would be nice if open risk-based processors 00:08:22.820 --> 00:08:27.980 were like more of a thing. I'm getting so tired of closed systems these days. 00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:33.020 We're seeing the downsides of it with Microsoft and how everything is starting to insert ads everywhere 00:08:33.020 --> 00:08:37.020 and it's owning your entire life and it sucks. And open systems are becoming like necessary 00:08:37.020 --> 00:08:42.700 in every possible way. And that's one of them. BioFlash asks, if you were in the position of Linus, 00:08:42.700 --> 00:08:47.060 what would you have done differently? A lot, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it would have all been good. 00:08:47.060 --> 00:08:51.220 If I was in Linus's position, I seriously doubt we would have ever made a screwdriver 00:08:51.220 --> 00:08:55.900 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. 00:08:55.900 --> 00:08:59.540 I just don't have that mind for products necessarily 00:08:59.540 --> 00:09:02.780 in the way that he does. I think we would have grown a lot slower 00:09:02.780 --> 00:09:06.260 in a much more measured way. At the same time, one of the reasons for that 00:09:06.260 --> 00:09:09.460 is that I would personally wanted to mess with things 00:09:09.460 --> 00:09:14.180 and experiment potentially a little bit more often, but there is a dangerous side of that. 00:09:14.180 --> 00:09:18.420 And I would have resisted growing the company too fast 00:09:18.420 --> 00:09:23.980 in order to be able to absorb those things potentially easier. Again, these are things that are not necessarily better, 00:09:23.980 --> 00:09:27.580 but you asked differently not what would you have improved. 00:09:27.580 --> 00:09:31.700 Like there's something I'm gonna be trying to, I'm probably gonna pitch on Wanshow today actually, 00:09:31.700 --> 00:09:36.100 which is that we changed how ShortCircuit works to go back to a very old style filming that we had. 00:09:36.100 --> 00:09:41.020 If you look way back to the GTX 980 review in 2014, 00:09:41.020 --> 00:09:46.100 the method of filming that we had was Linus would present and then I would present the benchmarking results 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:49.420 and then the video would go back to Linus for a little bit and then end. When the product comes in, 00:09:49.420 --> 00:09:53.700 it just goes straight to somebody on ShortCircuit. They unbox it on camera first time 00:09:53.700 --> 00:09:58.980 and talk about their experience with it. And then it cuts to somebody in Labs afterwards 00:09:58.980 --> 00:10:02.700 who gets the product after the ShortCircuit people and they talk about the benchmarking there, 00:10:02.700 --> 00:10:06.320 harkening all the way back to those like old reviews that we did just to split things up. 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.520 That's something that I would do differently. That's much more recent. 00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:14.040 I've been pretty open about how I would have done the Labs completely differently from the beginning. 00:10:14.040 --> 00:10:17.040 We're still kind of getting to that vision. 00:10:17.040 --> 00:10:20.760 I don't know, if I was in charge, the company would probably be a lot smaller, 00:10:20.760 --> 00:10:24.320 a lot less successful in a total revenue standpoint, 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:29.480 but there are things that personally, in a biased headstrong fashion, I think would be better 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.600 and there's things that I know would be worse. Simply Nintendo asks, 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:36.240 is there going to be any exciting tech in the new space if so what? 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.520 I don't fully understand what this means. What I'm going to take it as 00:10:39.520 --> 00:10:43.160 is there going to be any new exciting tech 00:10:43.160 --> 00:10:46.240 in its own space. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.680 And the way that I'll take that is that I think AR glasses feel like the future. 00:10:49.680 --> 00:10:54.640 If you look at the ShortCircuit channel, that video Riley did on the Meta glasses just popped off 00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:59.240 very differently to Google Glass back in the day. I'm actually seeing a lot of people walking around 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:05.020 wearing various smart glasses, mostly the Metas. I really hope any company, pretty much any company 00:11:05.020 --> 00:11:09.500 other than Meta figures this out. That feels like the direction that things are going in. 00:11:09.500 --> 00:11:14.460 It feels like VR is kind of less interesting to people these days, unless Valve does it. 00:11:14.460 --> 00:11:18.580 It feels like the mixed reality stuff 00:11:18.580 --> 00:11:21.940 that Samsung and Apple are doing didn't really catch on, 00:11:21.940 --> 00:11:25.140 but these AR glasses seem to be the thing. 00:11:25.140 --> 00:11:28.820 Aperson545 asks, hi, what are some tech essentials 00:11:28.820 --> 00:11:33.860 for most gamers? Hot take, most stuff that people are interested in 00:11:33.860 --> 00:11:37.020 if they're watching this channel is excess. 00:11:37.020 --> 00:11:40.380 I think some of my most prime gaming years 00:11:40.380 --> 00:11:44.260 were with pretty junk stuff. For the vast majority of people, 00:11:44.260 --> 00:11:48.860 most things are going to be okay. And what I would focus on if I were you 00:11:48.860 --> 00:11:52.540 is things that resonate with you nicely. Do you like how that keyboard feels? 00:11:52.540 --> 00:11:56.860 Do you like how that mouse feels to use? Do you like a really light mouse? 00:11:56.860 --> 00:12:00.100 Prioritize a really light mouse. A lot of mice these days, 00:12:00.100 --> 00:12:05.700 the latency to the computer is really solid. So find one that you'd like to use and feels good for you. 00:12:05.700 --> 00:12:09.420 If you're not going literal pro, it's probably okay. 00:12:09.420 --> 00:12:13.860 Shroud might be able to tell the difference between some like incredible monitor 00:12:13.860 --> 00:12:18.020 and an incredible mouse and how those interact with each other and whatnot. 00:12:18.020 --> 00:12:21.700 Is it going to happen to me? I think I'm pretty okay at most games. 00:12:21.700 --> 00:12:29.540 The answer is no, I'm not going to notice at all. PC master rays said based on the last 15 to 20 years, 00:12:29.580 --> 00:12:35.060 how would you say your attitude towards achieving personal success has evolved if at all, 00:12:35.060 --> 00:12:39.860 alongside the positive changes in personal financial security over the same time period? 00:12:39.860 --> 00:12:44.240 I think about this a very weird amount maybe. I don't know, is this something you think about often? 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:47.940 Like what would kid me think about where I am now? I'll be like, he's living the dream. 00:12:47.940 --> 00:12:52.100 Okay, but do you think about that ever? No, I think about that like weekly. 00:12:52.100 --> 00:12:55.540 Really? Oh, I'm not even kidding. That's a constant thought process for me. 00:12:55.540 --> 00:13:01.980 I remember when I was a kid, I had this idea. There was this road not too far from my parents house 00:13:01.980 --> 00:13:08.500 and there was a rancher on it. And I remember thinking, I'd love to own kind of a smaller place like that 00:13:08.500 --> 00:13:11.620 because when I was a kid, owning a house seemed detainable. 00:13:11.620 --> 00:13:18.500 I want to own a smaller place like that, have a dog, have a girlfriend or wife that I like a lot 00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:22.640 and just try to live pretty easy. Work kind of as little as possible, 00:13:22.680 --> 00:13:27.720 play a bunch of video games, play sports, hang out with my friends and just have a good, nice, easy life. 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:31.520 And then now I have three titles and no one can describe what my job is. 00:13:31.520 --> 00:13:37.160 So things have changed a bit in terms of attitude. I think a lot of that is just because of feeling ownership 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:41.880 over this thing and feeling responsibility for the people 00:13:41.880 --> 00:13:45.880 that I lead, the people on my teams, any of the teams, 00:13:45.880 --> 00:13:51.040 the full plane side, the LMG side, it doesn't matter. Feeling responsibility for making sure 00:13:51.040 --> 00:13:54.420 that they are as equipped as possible for their personal success and stuff 00:13:54.420 --> 00:14:00.380 has been very internally rewarding for me. The dollar's not as much for me personally. 00:14:00.380 --> 00:14:04.200 I find a lot more reward through working with people 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:09.800 and seeing overall team success. I've always been very into team success. 00:14:09.800 --> 00:14:14.800 That goes back to sports and everything else. Like solo sports, I was never that interested in. 00:14:14.800 --> 00:14:18.280 Team sports, I was extremely interested in. I've always had this type of mentality. 00:14:18.280 --> 00:14:21.640 I'm not against my old dreams. 00:14:21.640 --> 00:14:27.360 I'm just not there right now, and that's okay. I think old me would be proud of where I'm at. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:31.580 I feel like I'm generally doing the right things. Obviously there's mistakes all the time, 00:14:31.580 --> 00:14:36.720 but I like to think that I'm mostly approaching things appropriately and that previous and future me 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:41.800 would be okay with what I'm currently doing. I think there will be regrets for how little sleep I get 00:14:41.800 --> 00:14:46.240 and the lack of certain things that I wish I could do more of. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:51.680 But I think I can get there eventually. And the positive changes in personal financial security. 00:14:51.680 --> 00:14:54.840 I mean, that is nice, but I intentionally live 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:00.240 below my means and that will always be true. I do not have a particular taste 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.520 for overly expensive things. If I can eat at decently nice places, 00:15:04.520 --> 00:15:08.760 if I can take a vacation now and then hang out with friends, 00:15:08.760 --> 00:15:12.400 do some things like that, I'm gonna be really happy. I don't need a fancy car. 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:16.360 I love and adore my car. My car's from 2009, is it Acura? 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.200 It had its first unscheduled repair ever yesterday. 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.800 It was $400. I love that car. Dan, the WAN Man Floaty says, 00:15:24.800 --> 00:15:28.400 if cost time and resources weren't a problem, what would you develop if you could? 00:15:28.400 --> 00:15:31.560 I have a perfect answer for this. It's called vinegar. 00:15:31.560 --> 00:15:36.120 I had this idea years ago. If one of you wanna do it, please do it. 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:39.760 If you take my name, wrote me in there somehow. So the reason why it's called vinegar 00:15:39.760 --> 00:15:43.280 is because it was to counter honey. And no, this is not because of the honey controversy. 00:15:43.280 --> 00:15:47.640 I had this thought years ago. The grand vision was it was fully user configurable. 00:15:47.640 --> 00:15:53.200 So you could decide the things that you cared about, and then it would help you avoid certain companies. 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:57.760 So if you're like, I wanna work with companies that are good for the environment, 00:15:57.760 --> 00:16:00.960 or they stand for a certain social issue that I care about, or whatever else, 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.440 it would like on Amazon ward you away from there. 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:10.680 The main reason why I wanted it, so the social issue that I would want to check off mostly 00:16:10.680 --> 00:16:14.400 is the death of brick and mortar. I don't want that to happen. 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:18.560 I personally try to basically never shop on Amazon. 00:16:18.560 --> 00:16:23.040 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 00:16:23.040 --> 00:16:26.360 that is part of this problem. The thing that I wanted to do was when I went 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:29.520 onto a page on Amazon, I wanted it to tell me 00:16:29.520 --> 00:16:32.520 where else I could buy this thing from. 00:16:32.520 --> 00:16:35.960 How do I not buy it from here? The idea kind of moved on from there, 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:39.600 because something that I find is people will try to avoid, say Nestle, because they're like, 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.960 I don't like Nestle as a company. But Nestle makes freaking everything. 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.640 So it's hard to figure out if this product is actually from Nestle or not. 00:16:46.640 --> 00:16:50.960 So if you're like, I want to avoid Nestle products. If you're on Amazon, it would be like, 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.280 here's the other place that you can buy it, but as a heads up, this goes against the things 00:16:54.280 --> 00:16:57.400 that you listed so you can decide to buy it or not. 00:16:57.400 --> 00:17:01.880 So it's like an anti-honey, where it's not incentivizing you to buy the thing, 00:17:01.880 --> 00:17:07.300 because it's like, oh, it's cheaper. It's going, hmm, maybe reconsider based on the factors 00:17:07.300 --> 00:17:12.200 that you laid out, you individually, I don't want the platform to make any decisions. 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.440 And also you can buy it at these other places. Make that thing. 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:21.040 I want someone to do it. I laid out all the specs, and then I realized how incredibly hard that is to make. 00:17:21.040 --> 00:17:25.160 And then I didn't do it. Andrew A asks, what are your current favorite YouTubers? 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.200 I've been watching a lot of speed with three E's. 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:35.040 I've been watching a bunch of big A, Mythical Kitchen, Level One Tex, Eddie Burback is hilarious. 00:17:35.040 --> 00:17:38.880 Zack the Bold is fantastic. Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff. 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.400 Nerdlaw says, what benefits would you want to see 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.560 from current AI development, and what scares you the most? 00:17:45.560 --> 00:17:51.160 Benefits that I'd like to see is the like, renaissance movement where individuals are empowered 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.960 to create more than they ever have been in the past, 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.080 and the empowerment of individuals 00:17:58.080 --> 00:18:04.280 over the empowerment of corporations. What scares you the most? The empowerment of corporations over individuals. 00:18:04.280 --> 00:18:10.320 It's the opposite side of the coin. I am very hopeful for the aspect of individuals 00:18:10.320 --> 00:18:14.720 being able to rise up and find personal success more easily through the use of AI. 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:18.520 I'm also very concerned of corporate use of AI, 00:18:18.520 --> 00:18:22.760 crushing the job market and making it so that it's like, impossible for people to get started 00:18:22.760 --> 00:18:25.840 and increasing the class divide and class gap. 00:18:25.840 --> 00:18:29.000 Luke Stuck, in a recent WAN Show, 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.600 you said your family was a big sports family. What sports did you play and what was your favorite? 00:18:33.600 --> 00:18:40.480 I played football, I played rugby, I played hockey, I played one little tiny season of tennis. 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:45.320 I did rowing for a little bit. I played soccer. I technically played basketball. 00:18:45.320 --> 00:18:49.120 No, I didn't play badminton. I'm trying to think. 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:54.720 There's probably other stuff in there. Did I say football already? Probably. I think football was probably my favorite. 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.640 Ball hockey. I don't know if I even mentioned it, ball hockey. Ball hockey would be my favorite. 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.360 Ball hockey I played the most. It was great. 00:19:02.600 --> 00:19:07.040 Football's a close second, but ball hockey's number one for sure. Kerry says, what is your favorite thing 00:19:07.040 --> 00:19:14.000 about your relationship with Linus outside of employment? Linus is a very good driver, good inspiration. 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.080 There are many times where I think I'm doing quite well 00:19:18.080 --> 00:19:22.520 with something and everyone around me is saying that I'm doing quite well with the thing 00:19:22.520 --> 00:19:27.840 and he'll look at it and be like, I think you're capable of more and here's why. 00:19:27.840 --> 00:19:30.840 And then I'll sit there and be like, damn it. 00:19:30.840 --> 00:19:34.520 And then try to get it done. 00:19:34.520 --> 00:19:39.520 And it's often good and has driven me to higher heights. 00:19:39.840 --> 00:19:44.800 So it's a lot easier. It's less confrontational for a lot of people 00:19:44.800 --> 00:19:51.120 to just celebrate wins. He will often be like, cool and next, which is good. 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:54.200 Galaxy SG says, what is one thing you wish you had done 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:58.600 differently when creating Floatplane? I'm not a person who strongly hangs on regrets. 00:19:58.600 --> 00:20:03.020 I think a lot of the things that happened 00:20:03.020 --> 00:20:07.280 in the creation of Floatplane, needed to happen to inform future decisions. 00:20:07.280 --> 00:20:10.800 And I think if we did them differently, we might've just ran it to a different pit 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:14.360 followed a different time. I, there's some easy low hanging fruit. 00:20:14.360 --> 00:20:18.900 I wish we never did live streaming. Sales was a bad decision. 00:20:18.900 --> 00:20:23.760 I wish we went somewhere else with that. In both of those cases, well, less so in live streaming. 00:20:23.760 --> 00:20:26.880 With sales, there was no way for us to know that until way down the line. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.780 And I don't see us ever making a different decision 00:20:30.780 --> 00:20:34.440 with the information that we had at the time. I respect the team and the decision at that time. 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.820 I was part of it. I'm not trying to show responsibility at all to be very clear. 00:20:37.820 --> 00:20:41.000 It did make a bunch of things more difficult later on, 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.680 but that's part of it. I don't think changing any individual thing 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:48.900 would have necessarily been a net good because we had a lot of learnings from it 00:20:48.900 --> 00:20:53.000 other than maybe freaking live streaming and working with PayPal. 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:57.640 Captain observant, you're known for being frugal. What are some things you're not frugal about? 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:01.000 Thanks for not saying cheap, by the way. There is a difference. 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.680 I don't think I'm frugal on, I don't know. What do you think, Sammy? 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:10.320 You've traveled with me and stuff? I don't know, because every time I see you, it's the same backpack, same shirts. 00:21:10.320 --> 00:21:14.200 I think when we go out for food, you're like, I'll get this and you don't think about it. 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.200 That's true. I think my usual line is experiences. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:20.360 If we're eating out at a cool restaurant in a foreign country and I see something that looks 00:21:20.360 --> 00:21:24.160 interesting, I'm gonna try to go for it. That also bleeds into other things as well, 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:27.380 but my ideal experiences don't necessarily line up 00:21:27.380 --> 00:21:32.520 with other people's ideal experiences, which is another thing that leads to people thinking 00:21:32.520 --> 00:21:37.760 that I'm being particularly frugal, when I might not even be, I just want the other thing. 00:21:37.760 --> 00:21:40.840 Like I'm not gonna spring for really fancy hotels. 00:21:40.840 --> 00:21:45.160 I am gonna spring for weird hotels in the middle of nowhere, 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:52.360 which might lead me to having off the road, weirder, less common, hopefully grounded 00:21:52.360 --> 00:21:58.080 with the people of that area experiences. Like one of my favorite things ever was in the mountains 00:21:58.080 --> 00:22:01.960 of Alishan in Taiwan, Emma and I went to this place 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:06.600 that I don't know the full name translated to English, 00:22:06.600 --> 00:22:10.640 but I think it's like shoe size 11 or something. 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:14.600 11 is in it, the Arabic numeral 11 is in the name, 00:22:14.600 --> 00:22:19.000 so you can find it that way, but for 24 hours, you could just stay with a mountain tribe in Alishan 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.560 and pick tea and cut down bamboo and cook rice in the bamboo 00:22:22.560 --> 00:22:25.600 and see some of their practices and how they do things. 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:29.000 That was amazing. That's an experience for me that like, 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:32.520 if the bank account can take it, I'm gonna spend to make that happen. 00:22:32.520 --> 00:22:37.080 There was parts of that work that were expensive. I had to take a really long bullet train to get down there. 00:22:37.080 --> 00:22:41.680 We had to stay overnight at a hotel. We had to get a long taxi way up into the mountains. 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.280 The next day we had to get a long taxi down out of the mountains the day after. 00:22:45.280 --> 00:22:48.400 None of that was cheap, but it was an incredible life memory. 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:51.600 I'll also spend money on my pets for vet bills 00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:54.800 and things like that, the people around me, my family, stuff like that. 00:22:54.800 --> 00:22:59.080 I also get sentimental over things. Sammy mentioned, I see the same backpacks. 00:22:59.080 --> 00:23:05.320 My like red backpack has been with me on every single trip I've done for like a decade. 00:23:05.320 --> 00:23:08.360 That has value to me. A new one that looks great 00:23:08.360 --> 00:23:12.400 doesn't particularly have value to me. The fact that this one has been everywhere with me, 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:19.560 it's held together, it's still holding together. It has scars from something that happened. 00:23:19.560 --> 00:23:26.360 It has marks from things that happened. That holds so much value to me over some new shiny product. 00:23:26.360 --> 00:23:30.240 I like those types of things. It's one of the things with my car. Every time I get into my car, 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:35.280 there's, I feel appreciation for it. And it's been there and bad times has been there and good. 00:23:35.280 --> 00:23:38.600 I like my car, I don't want anything else. Jim, Jim Daru asks, what's your favorite, 00:23:38.600 --> 00:23:42.800 what's your most liked slash favorite and least liked slash favorite thing you own? 00:23:42.800 --> 00:23:47.080 Tech or non-tech related? People or animals included. What's going on, Jim? 00:23:47.080 --> 00:23:51.400 I don't own her, but I'm gonna say Emma. Least favorite. 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:55.080 I don't think you have one. Yeah, I know. Or teams. Teams. 00:23:55.920 --> 00:24:01.200 I don't actually own that, the company does, but teams, screw teams. What percentage of your daily time is spent in meetings? 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:06.320 Give me a second. Just this week, my time spent in meetings was 32 hours. 00:24:06.320 --> 00:24:11.960 Jesus Christ. That doesn't include anything that isn't on Google Calendar. 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:16.200 So impromptu meetings, outside of hours unscheduled meetings. 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:19.280 I had five hours of calls unscheduled 00:24:19.280 --> 00:24:23.160 outside of hours last night. Those were not included in that number. 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:26.480 We had a meeting before the shoot and we're having probably one after this too. 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:29.680 Yep. Both unscheduled. 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.320 So it's actually, it's more than that. And then I said, do you wish it was less 00:24:33.320 --> 00:24:40.680 or do meetings work well for you? I absolutely wish it was less. I like to position myself as a form of like shield 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:46.000 between outside parts of the company, outside parts of the world and my team. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.560 So I would rather deal with the meetings 00:24:49.560 --> 00:24:53.200 and the anything that could create blockages 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:57.480 or annoyances for people on my team instead of them dealing with it. So I try to deal with as much of that 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:02.480 and put it on me as I possibly can. But that doesn't mean that I like it. 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:07.360 And I do hope to reduce those, but I don't hope to reduce those by shirking them off onto people on my team. 00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:12.360 Yo-Hank said, best movie ever. Dark Rainbow replied with 90% chance of him saying hackers. 00:25:12.360 --> 00:25:15.960 That person's right. But to subvert expectations, 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:19.800 I'm gonna instead of just saying movie, my family's been starting to rewatch 00:25:19.800 --> 00:25:24.920 Lord of the Rings again. Oh, that's hard to beat. Adam Skeedoo said, 00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:29.120 have you got any cool ideas slash goals that you would like to investigate and accomplish with the Labs? 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:36.840 Yeah, but my current line for the Labs is like that I'm more thinking kind of vision 00:25:37.740 --> 00:25:44.200 right now with the lab. And the reason why I say that is because... 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:47.440 So one, cool ideas are goals I'd like to investigate and accomplish. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:51.320 A goal for the lab for me is for it to, this is something Nick Harrison, 00:25:51.320 --> 00:25:55.760 the lab and I have talked about extensively is that we want it to feel like a Bill Nye lab. 00:25:55.760 --> 00:26:00.360 And what does that actually mean? Neither of us have watched Bill Nye the Science Guy since we were in like elementary school. 00:26:00.360 --> 00:26:05.760 So it's a little hard to remember, but the feeling that we had at that time was that there was fun questions asked 00:26:05.760 --> 00:26:08.840 and we went along the journey of answering them 00:26:08.840 --> 00:26:13.000 and experiencing it. So I wrote this thing called The Way, 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:17.000 which I absolutely stole from Star Wars, My Bad. And it's five bullet points of like 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:20.160 how you should decide to do things or not within the Labs. 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:24.040 That's not final. I don't know why I even share that with you guys, 00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:30.120 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 00:26:30.120 --> 00:26:33.880 it has the potential to become. I want us to have a YouTube channel for it. 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:37.400 We need to start working slightly in different ways as time goes on. 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:42.160 But that to me is a cool idea of this like technical machine 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.600 that you can ask questions of it and it will output cool, interesting answers 00:26:46.600 --> 00:26:50.000 and bring you along the journey. So I hope that's how that becomes. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.760 Noki, good old Noki. Shout out Noki said, 00:26:53.760 --> 00:26:58.760 a few times on the WAN Show you've expressed your interest in building a new mineral cool PC, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:26:58.760 --> 00:27:02.720 If it was closed off, how would it be dangerous? Leaks, even the thermal take systems 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:06.240 aren't like perfectly closed off. I just don't trust it on a percent. 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:09.320 When it comes to the health of the birds, 00:27:09.320 --> 00:27:13.000 they have this innate ability to just die at any moment. 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:17.160 And it's just not worth the risk when I could just have a normal computer. Mr. J. Cops says, 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:21.360 where does one draw discipline from to stay fit? I mean, I struggle with that now. 00:27:21.360 --> 00:27:25.160 It's not out of desire to stay fit. It's out of, I just have no freaking time. 00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:30.960 So sometimes I have a really hard time getting to the gym. In my opinion, don't scream at me. 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.640 Especially once you hit a certain age, I think you just have to. 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:39.560 The body is generally a machine that requires movement. 00:27:39.560 --> 00:27:42.560 And if you're not doing that, a lot of modern life, 00:27:42.560 --> 00:27:48.240 Uber Eats, Netflix, all these different things promote this idea of being extremely sedentary. 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.920 And if you do that in my experience, my lived experience, 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:56.680 is that things start to kind of shut down. You start feeling like crap mentally, physically, 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:01.640 and to stave off that demon, you have to go be physically active. 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:04.720 It doesn't mean you have to go in the gym and do deadlifts, 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:09.840 but you got to find something that works for you. And I think you just have to. 00:28:09.840 --> 00:28:14.160 And that can involve like one of the ways that I do it is playing Pokemon Go. 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:17.200 Pokemon Go is a dopamine machine that gets me walking. 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:21.440 That is the only, it's a terrible game. If you want to get into it because you're like, 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:26.640 oh, it's probably so sick. It is not sick. It is actually just a bad game, 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:32.320 but it is also a dopamine machine. And if you play it the way that you want to play it, 00:28:32.320 --> 00:28:35.840 instead of getting into remote raiding and all that other crap that, again, 00:28:35.840 --> 00:28:40.680 promotes keeping you at home, sitting on the couch, if you only play it when you're out and moving and stuff, 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:45.880 you can use it to get you out there, get you moving. Find people that will be fun to hang out with. 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:50.080 Join a biking club or something and go biking with people. Join a running club. 00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:54.200 Find a workout buddy, go to the gym, do something. I think it's highly beneficial for everyone. 00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:57.280 Chocolate Ducks said, do anything big lately. 00:28:57.280 --> 00:29:00.720 Labs has been going on a world tour of sorts, 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:05.760 which has all been in America, but they'd like hearing that. We've gone to Intel, we've gone to Qualcomm, 00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:09.520 we've gone to NVIDIA, we're hoping to get AMD on there. 00:29:09.520 --> 00:29:12.720 We're trying to see what other Labs are doing 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:16.480 for performance testing and how they conduct it and all that kind of stuff. See what their approaches are. 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:21.240 See how off we are. The answer has been not that far off, which is really cool. 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:25.840 Did you vlog it? No. No! Pethor says, where do you see 00:29:25.840 --> 00:29:30.600 full playing going in the next 10 years? I mean, there's tons, obviously. There's usability progress all the time. 00:29:30.600 --> 00:29:34.840 We're always making minor steps forward for accessibility. 00:29:34.840 --> 00:29:40.040 There's usability progress, or technical slash usability progress that we're going to be seeing 00:29:40.080 --> 00:29:43.480 in regards to TV apps and other various apps. 00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:46.720 This is Jaden's idea, and it's wonderful, 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:51.160 and I want to see it through, which is we want to kind of divert 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.480 how full-plane has been acting, where instead of everybody's just on full-plane, 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:59.760 full-plane is the home, you have to come here to see everything. People have kind of their own homes. 00:29:59.760 --> 00:30:03.000 So you could go to like a Linus Tech Tip specific, 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:06.920 or Linus Media Group, let's say, specific website and then see just our stuff there, 00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:12.880 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, 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:16.840 where there's the Shop app, if you're unfamiliar with it, basically there's one place that you can go 00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:21.720 that has all the different stores on Shopify on it, but you can also just go to lttstore.com 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:25.040 and buy stuff there, or whatever other website that's on Shopify. 00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:28.800 We want to kind of make it so that the creators on full-plane have their own websites 00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:32.600 that are kind of their own experiences, but it's a full-plane login, it's full-plane payments, 00:30:32.600 --> 00:30:36.080 but the rest of it is all theirs. And we can make that for them, 00:30:36.080 --> 00:30:40.800 but it's their experiences, their home. Most people on full-plane are subscribing to one creator. 00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:46.200 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. 00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.440 Amazing idea from Jaden, or Jaden and Peter, 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:52.960 or both of them, or Peter or something. I don't remember exactly where it originated, 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.600 but it was over there. I really want to try to champion that and push that forward. 00:30:56.600 --> 00:31:00.880 I think it's brilliant. And I really do think that is the future of full-plane, 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:05.240 because the thing that we've always really enjoyed doing is the technical side of things. 00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:10.200 So if we can just give people the ability to have their own space on the internet, that's awesome. 00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.480 And I think that's something we could excel at. Brooke Solis. 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.960 Brooke? Brooke? Brooke? What was the spark that led you into the tech space? 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:21.920 Any fun tech-related projects when you were a kid? My dad gave me a computer to work on 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:27.920 when I was really young and didn't know anything. And he let me just wrench on it, however I pleased. 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:32.320 My dad has a fun story that, when he was getting married to my mom, 00:31:32.320 --> 00:31:37.160 he kind of leaned in, someone else was saying something, but they were up at the front and was like, 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:41.040 I bought a computer this morning. My dad's always been into computers. 00:31:41.040 --> 00:31:44.240 He got me into computers for sure. He was the spark. 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:47.400 Cloudy Cat said, we know you lied on your resume, but how much did you lie? 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:52.120 My education and job experience were accurate. I also included my computer. 00:31:52.120 --> 00:31:55.360 The job was specifically asking for someone with camera experience. 00:31:55.360 --> 00:31:59.080 And I said that I had photography and videography and editing experience. 00:31:59.080 --> 00:32:02.320 That was all a lie. I didn't say it was for a job, I just said I had it. 00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:06.160 I had actually technically never filmed anything of any form at that point in time. 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.560 I had never recorded a video when I applied. 00:32:10.320 --> 00:32:13.840 I got a buddy of mine to approve me attaching 00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:17.880 some videos that he had made and some pictures that he had taken, 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.680 fairly confident that I could just watch YouTube videos and learn how to do it. 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:26.520 And I did that. And then in the interview, for some reason, 00:32:26.520 --> 00:32:29.960 I admitted that I made all that up. And he was like, okay, well, 00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:33.480 let's have you film something right now and see how it goes. And I did. 00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:37.280 And then that video was uploaded and I bent the rules again 00:32:37.280 --> 00:32:40.960 because he was like, we'll see what the commenters say. And I was like, great, thanks for telling me that. 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:44.160 And then I went and got all of my friends that I knew to comment on the video 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:47.680 and say it was like the best thing ever filmed. I spread that far and wide. 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:50.680 I generated multiple accounts myself. 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:55.440 A bunch of those comments are me. And then I got the job and I'm still here. 00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:00.360 Dark Rainbow said, how did you feel at first when you're appointed to the head of Labs? 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.520 Were you worried that you might not be able to do a good job? How do you figure it out eventually? 00:33:05.520 --> 00:33:09.360 How did you figure it out eventually? Very gracious for you to say that I figured it out eventually. 00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:15.080 Yeah, I was worried. I was very worried. I had talked a lot of crap publicly and privately 00:33:15.080 --> 00:33:19.840 about what was going on in the Labs. And then it was time to put up or shut up in a way. 00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:25.920 The beginning was very, very difficult and it is currently very, very difficult. 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.400 I always question if I'm doing a good job. I hope I'm doing a good job. 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:33.440 I feel like I'm doing right by the people on the team. And I feel like we're gonna make something 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:38.240 that is beneficial both externally and internally. The end of 2024, the little sliver at the end 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:41.720 that I was there for was a lot of discovery. What do we have? 00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:44.840 What are we good at? What do we know? What parts are not working? 00:33:44.840 --> 00:33:49.920 What parts are working? 2025 was very much restructuring the team, 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:53.320 realigning on goals. The thing that I wrote earlier, 00:33:53.320 --> 00:33:58.280 trying to figure out what drives us, what things do we care about? What is our North Star? 00:33:58.280 --> 00:34:01.840 And hiring and training and building. 00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:04.880 2025 has been all about building what the lab is. 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:08.320 And then 2026 will be more about like emergence. 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:12.560 We're planning on publishing more on our own platforms, on other people's platforms, 00:34:12.560 --> 00:34:16.000 other people's platforms being like LTD or ShortCircuit or whatever. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:20.120 We wanna have more articles going up. Hopefully eventually we'll have a Labs channel of our own. 00:34:20.120 --> 00:34:24.440 We can just keep pushing more stuff like that. I wanna be more open about what Labs is doing on Flow Plane. 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:29.160 I wanna talk to you more, stuff like that. Corey said, with your high work ethic and busy schedule, 00:34:29.160 --> 00:34:33.200 have you ever felt burnt out? How do you deal with it? I've felt tired. 00:34:33.200 --> 00:34:39.760 I don't think I've ever truly felt burnt out. In a weird way, I often actually don't like what I do, 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:46.640 but I like what we do, and I see value in what I do in the system as it works. 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:50.600 I don't like just sitting in meetings all the time. I don't like debating things. 00:34:50.600 --> 00:34:53.960 I don't like, in a lot of ways, managing. 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:57.400 But I think I can bring benefit there. 00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:02.680 I think I can help people and help teams and drive things forward. So I apply myself. 00:35:02.680 --> 00:35:08.160 Roxas712 said, as a current director of technology who has a path to CEO, what advice or tips can you offer 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:13.320 from your own experience as CTO? My own experience as CTO has been very strange. 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:16.560 That title for most of its existence was nebulous 00:35:16.560 --> 00:35:21.800 in its legitimacy the whole time. If I can offer any advice, 00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:26.840 it's just understand that most of everything you do will always be seen in a negative light. 00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:32.800 No one likes the software that they use for their job. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:36.200 I don't know a single person at any company that feels that way. 00:35:36.200 --> 00:35:39.760 I don't know a single person at any company that feels really great about the hardware 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:43.240 that they have to use for their job. People hate the tools that are in front of them 00:35:43.240 --> 00:35:46.640 because they will never be perfect, and that will always be frustrating. 00:35:46.640 --> 00:35:50.480 And just try to embrace the fact that it's not a personal thing. 00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:55.040 Just do your best to do right by the people that are gonna rely on you to have good stuff. 00:35:55.080 --> 00:35:58.400 Care about their input, but yeah, I don't take it too personally. 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:02.120 Methods visit word. I'm so sorry. 00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:09.320 How often do you speak with Linus? Not including WAN Show. Usually, literally, not at all. 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:12.360 Or maybe a couple of Discord messages back and forth. 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:16.240 But other times, a ton. Just kinda depends what's going on. 00:36:16.240 --> 00:36:20.680 Thanks for watching. Apparently I can talk. That was over an hour long, Sammy tells me. 00:36:20.680 --> 00:36:23.680 So if you wanna see probably another really long talk, 00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:27.160 tune in Wednesday. I'll be sitting down with Riley talking about AI stuff. 00:36:27.160 --> 00:36:31.080 So, you know, we can just go. Thanks for checking out Luke Week. 00:36:31.080 --> 00:36:34.920 Thanks for checking out Flowplain. Thanks for being subscribed. Thanks to Sammy for existing. 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:36.120 I'll see you guys later.