Hello Mike.

I agree.

I feel like last show we really clarified something.

Mm-hmm.

You know what's about to begin?

Season 2 of Cortex.

We did our clip show,

looking back on cortex last time,

and we talked about a bunch of things.

And one of them was talking about this idea

that you and I are sort of meeting for

lunch and we're discussing our working lives and talking things through and how for

both of us this is a beneficial process.

It's like talking about the thing that you're doing helps you do things better,

even if you're not explicitly talking about how to make your working life better.

And this is one of these things like I find I have this kind of conversation with lots of people in my life and I feel like this is a learned kind of skill

but it's it's something that almost sounds so banal that people don't

recognize it as a skill. The little just thinking in the background about how you work and running it over every once in a while

and thinking about how things go.

And there was a particular comment from the Reddit that I really like that I felt like

summed this up and also pointed out the learned nature of this skill.

And it was a comment from Logic 42 who said,

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