Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

I'm good. Long time, no talk to you.

It has been ages. I went back and looked at when we last chatted. It was this time last year. It's crazy. It doesn't feel like that long.

It depends how you think about it. I mean, I think, you know, coming out of COVID, all sense of time has been lost. So some things feel very fast. Some things feel very slow. But I will be honest, I actually thought it had been two years. So yes. So I think that's the opposite of you. But I share the amazement at the passage of time. Yes. Well, I mean, maybe we average the two out.

It comes out somewhere where actually the amount of time it's been since we last recorded.

But I've missed this.

It's really good to chat with you.

Yeah.

Well, you are now, you have changed sides of the world.

There's been big changes in Jamesville.

What have you been up to?

I, well, listeners who remember to last year will

know that i spent six months in singapore and i got back to the bay area and um it changed a lot

a lot of my friends had left it didn't quite feel like it did before covid but more than that

uh COVID has enabled remote work.

And I decided I want to change, wanted a change. And I am now back in Singapore on the other side

of the Pacific Rim. The same side of the Pacific Rim as you, now it's permanent. And I've been

here for almost a year, believe it or not. Yes, so lots of changes.

On my part, I, without a podcast partner, watched just in, to compensate, just

watched like 47 other podcasts in response.

There are, you know, which you are obviously aware of, people on this feed, I presume

mostly are, but I have a

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