> There's a a great line that I came across I wanted to read to you guys. It's from Salhi Gun. It says, "You'll regret it if you get married. You'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids. And you'll regret it if you don't. Kagod said this 200 years ago as follows. Whatever you choose, you'll regret it because the problem isn't in your choices. It's in romanticizing your life.
12:37 · So then he basically said, "You can talk to me as much as you want and also any engineer you want and they don't have to be media ready." But and I said because I I said to him like and then on my side I was like I'll I'm not like a journalist who's like that you can't change anything. I'm like I'll send you the post at the end and if there's something like some proprietary thing someone said that's not supposed to be in there, you can take it out. And they really almost took nothing out. It was like it was like the the uh the cost of like a Starling Starling was an idea at that time. It was like they you know little things like that the bandwidth of a Starling satellite things like random numbers they were like two or three of those you can't put that in.
1:18:17 · I I had six months to think about that I have a TED talk hanging over that's going to this horrifying thing over the horizon. I wish someone had just told me a month before you have to if you want me to speak at your wedding tell me freaking 10 days before do not give me six months where I'm like ah after that wedding I have to come up with a really good speed oh that's so good yeah because you're frontloading the pain exactly as well as front lo you want to know about good things way ahead and you want to know about tell me about the gang bang a year in advance but tell me about the tax return one week before depends on the details if which side of the gang bang you want to leave that's true that's true you know um the
10:45 · go over you know 2,000 words and I was like okay I can't get over 3,000 4,000 and then it kept going up and then I did one that was like 8,000 but like it got some traffic and I was like people liked it. Okay. And then the next one and then so I just had a problem where it was like one of these uh you know it's like someone who keeps taking like you know more drugs to get the same high like so I would just start like then getting more thorough and more thorough and by the end I was writing 40,000 word would count in a book for like 50,000 words as a it's like 120 150 page book something like that. Um and but but so I have this format where I can write any length blog post. So I'm like why would I do a book?
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