there's a limit to what you can get out of life from a screen. And there's a limit what you can

get out of life by being in sort of one place and having a limited version of the entire human

experience. It's the, it's what we're talking about. It's like, oh, I never left my small town. It's

like, okay, well, that's, that's a limited version of what the world has to offer, right? And,

and it was just so vithril to me. It was so vithril to me.

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David, welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks once for taking the time to join us.

My pleasure, Srini. Srini, how do you, how do you like, how to guess?

Yeah, it's funny. You know, the only person who calls me Srinivas to this day is my mom when she's

yelling at, okay, like anybody calls me Srinivas. I'm like, shit, I'm in trouble. I'm going to do that

like head tilting anti-lilt exactly when I do it. Exactly. Well, so you had the new book out

called The Futures Analog. I loved your previous book, The Revenge of Analog, as somebody who

squares by physical books, writes in a bullet journal every day and is always big on meeting people

face to face instead of online. I would much rather be doing this with you in person, but geographic

conversations being what they are. But before we get into all of that, I wanted to start by asking you,

what is the very first job that you ever had and what impact did that end up having on what you

ended up doing with your life in your career? Skin instructor. Yeah. Okay, that is a cool

ass first job. Like most people, I worked at McDonald's. Yeah, listen, they don't call it white

privilege for no reason, right? Yeah, but also, you know, I, I was in high school. I was someone

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