To me, context is about pattern recognition.

It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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So Joe, you know I'm over in Hong Kong, right?

You've realized this.

Yeah, that much I did know yet.

Excellent.

So now that I'm in the Asia region and I'm very, very close to China,

I've taken a great, great interest in Chinese

monetary policy and economics. What is it like, Tracy, as someone, like I've

only ever worked in New York basically and you've worked in New York you've

probably worked in London I'm not sure but I suspect you have you've worked in

Abu Dhabi you've worked in Abu Dhabi, you've worked now in Hong Kong, probably like a

bunch of other places. You're very international, just a very international person.

So do you go around the world just like acquiring new interests and having to learn

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