Good morning. Frank was feeling left out, so he wanted to say hello. There is a lot going on in the

world. Power outage in Spain, the U.S. Prince negative GDP, cats living with dogs, real Old

Testament stuff. All right, Frank.

It is Wednesday morning, April 30th, and I have to make this short so that my staff can put this together for Friday morning.

Something happened in response to my Earth Day talk or my frankly on AI and service of life that got me to

thinking about the future of this work, this platform, the collective sense making of the human

condition.

And that's what I'd like to briefly reflect on today.

Thank you. And that's what I'd like to briefly reflect on today. I sent the link to my talk to a dear friend who is a card-carrying ecological economist, and I've known for over 20 years.

And I said, I think you might like this.

And she said, oh, well, it's one of your Franklies on Earth Day. So I just had a team meeting, and she has a pretty big job.

Just had a staff kind of morale boosting meeting and I'm riding high on that.

And your stuff is kind of heavy and scary and intense and depressing.

So I'll try to watch it in the next month or so, but can't do it.

And this is someone who understands our situation and has similar values to me.

And she couldn't bring herself to watch it.

So I called a friend of mine, inner circle colleague.

And he's like, I have the opposite reaction. He's like,

I watched it and I got really excited and driven and like made some calls in my local community.

I rewatched your Alexis Ziegler video on direct current and 300 watt society and I got fired up. But I talked to my

neighbor who's an ER doc who watches your podcast and he's like, it all makes sense. I just can't

do it. It's too heavy and it's too ominous. And you know, it made me think that there are two arcs happening.

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