Hello everyone, welcome to the May 2021,

ask me anything addition of the Mindscape podcast.

May already, 2021 has been a long year for me.

I'm sure for almost all of you also.

I'm vaccinated now though, that's good.

Light at the end of the tunnel and all that.

I even went into my office at Caltech

where I'd like actually just to do work,

not to pick up mail or whatever,

and which I had not done in over a year.

So that's a sign of normalcy returning.

Not a very optimistic sign yet.

There's no one else around basically.

There's still clamping down quite heavily

on the number of people who can be in the same place

at the same time.

So working remotely, working from home

is actually still more efficient at this point.

But hopefully you're all out there

getting your vaccines if you can.

The United States here has been doing pretty well

at getting vaccines into arms, shots into arms.

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