Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm good. It's finally chilly here, so I can sit here in the

non-air conditioning without sweating my Randolph, so I am pleased. Yeah, I, um, so Palo Alto normally

gets pretty warm, so I feel like, uh, I don't have air conditioning in Palo Alto. I can kind of

relate to this, but I'm not actually in Palo Alto right now.

I'm in Bali.

Hey, that's on my side of the world.

Yeah, I am. I'm on your side of the Pacific.

It is stinking hot over here and humid, which is much like Taiwan is Taipei when you need to turn the AC on.

And because we're recording, I've had to turn the air conditioner

off. And so I can very much empathize right now with what it is you normally have to go through

to talk to me every week. I like how you always thought the sweating was for you. Oh, well, no. Now,

now I know, now I know for sure that it's not me that's making you sweat. It's definitely the climate.

Well, I trust that everything is going smoothly for you.

Yeah. Well, so the reason I'm over here is this has been quite the summer actually from the silent meditation retreat.

This is something else that I've always wanted to do. And time in between work is an opportunity to do things like

this. I'm actually taking a yoga teacher training. So it's a 200 hour, which is effectively a

month-long course here in Bali at a really cool place learning to become a yoga teacher. And I'm not

sure that I'm actually going to become a yoga teacher, but it's just, I've been interested in this for a very long time, and I figured now is the opportunity to do it.

You know, it kind of sounds like you're having a midlife crisis, I have to tell you.

You are not the first person to suggest this. It's either that or the other thing that I often hear is I'm turning into a Silicon Valley cliche. You know, you come to the valley, work in a tech from...

Meditation retreats and...

Exactly.

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