You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.

Hello, Connor Eccles.

Hey, Bob.

How you doing?

I can't complain.

Actually, I could complain.

Some things have gone wrong in the world.

I mean, for starters, at the local level, there's supposed to be a third person here.

My usual counterpart on Earthling Unplugged, which this is an addition of, Andrew Day, apparently is a temporarily victim of this storm that has they lose to

southeastern United States.

We think maybe he doesn't have electricity or something.

He was going to be on here.

And we were going to introduce you as our mystery guest because you, like Andrew,

are at the non-zero newsletter.

And you've written this great piece on

Alex Karp that's at the newsletter. You can Google non-zero and sub-sack and read it. What is it,

anatomy of a Silicon Valley Hawk? Anatomy of a Silicon Valley Hawk. Yeah, a profile of Alex Karp,

the CEO of Valentine's and one of the most unusual people I've ever come across.

I would almost call unusual a euphemism, but I will leave it for people to discover that by going to the newsletter.

Now, meanwhile, in terms of other forms of havoc and other places,

I just found,

I just found out within the last hour that Israel has targeted the leader of Hezbollah

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