I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so very recently I celebrated an important anniversary for me. On December 3rd, it was my 20th

anniversary of becoming head designer of magic. So that is very exciting to me.

It's hard to believe that for two-thirds of magic's life, I've been head designer.

That's a long time.

So what I thought today is, I have told pieces of the story, but never the whole story,

of how I became head designer, My story of becoming head designer.

I thought I would tell that today.

And then with the sort of the framework of,

this is a dream job for my,

how do you, how do you get a dream job?

So it's not as if there's a script.

It's not as if, like, just do these four things

and you can get your dream job.

But I can, in telling my story today, I just want to point out things along the way that, like, with 2020 hindsight, it's very good that I did it.

I'll point out some things where, like, there's steps that I took.

And once again, it's not as if getting a dream job is something that just has a set path.

But there are lessons to learn for my story, I believe.

Okay.

So let's start from the very beginning.

So as a kid, so my father, Gene, is a gamer, has always been a gamer.

I grew up in a house where gaming was important, where gaming was valued, where we played a lot of games.

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