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How's everybody doing?

How you feeling this week?

I'll tell you how I'm feeling.

It's Katie here.

My vibe levels are up.

I'm feeling really good.

I was at Columbia University earlier this week with five

of our fantastic editors and reporters at Wired because we were honored at the Columbia Journalism

School this week for our politics reporting. And so we got dressed up. I gave a speech.

And it was so wonderful to have a minute to sort of sit back and take a breath and think about all of the

journalism we've done in the last several months and celebrate that. And it was also really,

really cool to just see and talk to journalists who are graduating from journalism school

and feel their energy and their excitement and their drive to do this work because I think,

as you guys know and you

probably agree, we're all quite tired. Lauren, how are you? When you said because we're tired,

I wasn't sure if you meant like we're just tired in this moment or we are existentially tired

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