We are back from Memphis, my St. Jude's housing, which has now been turned into a podcast studio, because the grind doesn't stop.

Nothing can stop the grind of this podcast. Cancer can't stop the grind of this podcast. Once again,

we begin by asking, how is this podcast free? We can't figure it out. We have our team of

researchers looking into it, I assure you. So I have been thinking about just existential

questions of life. I've mentioned that, that, you know, there's nothing like

a crisis like the one that we're facing to make you just reflect on life, think about what you've

done in the past, your choices, how you've gotten to where you are, and frankly, how well your

life choices hold up? I think that is a great, well, I think it's the ultimate test of any life

philosophy. How well does your life philosophy.

How well does your life philosophy hold up when stuff hits the fan, when everything goes awry,

when you're facing a worst case scenario?

How well does your life philosophy hold up?

And these are the kind of questions that I first started asking,

when I was still an atheist,

I was working in high tech in that,

you know, it was the dot-com boom.

Everyone was young and overpaid.

It was really ridiculous. The dot-com boom was truly. It was like the Wild West, but with a lot of money. I mean, it would be like, oh, our 26-year-old CEO makes 500K a year.

I mean, it was truly a wild time. And so coming of age in this kind of boom time, it was interesting that the

psychological thing that happened to a lot of my peers is they really bought into kind of hedonistic

culture, self-sufficient culture, self-centered culture.

And I don't mean like in a nasty narcissist way.

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