I was just at a conference last week. It was a lot of tech people and I was invited. I was kind of an oddball out.

And during one of the breaks, a man walked up being shook my hand with a smile.

Thank you for ruining my life. Said it with a smile, and he then proceeded to say that he had watched

400 hours of the content.

He came to the conference just to meet me.

He's a successful venture capitalist and his world changed nine months ago when he found

this podcast.

He's watched every single episode, every single frankly,

including the Bend Not Break series multiple times. He's changing things in his life. He's changing

his priorities. He's changing his investments. He's changing his goals. And I'd like to talk

more broadly, not about this person, but about the implications of what happens when the magnitude of what is the great simplification, the system synthesis of the human predicament, versus the delta of what people believe in our techno-consumerist, isolated, insular, individualist

culture when that delta collapses.

Just some reflections on that today.

So actually, the first thing he said to me is he, you know, outside, he's like, I have so many questions,

which is, of course, Captain Crunch Decoder Ring for me as someone that watches the podcast,

because I say that a lot. Then he shook my hand and he told me his story. We've become friends

and had a few calls. And, you know, it's a true bat signal when

someone says they've watched 400 hours of your content. That's no BS. That is a true

non-fakable signal because I asked him, oh, what did you think about

this podcast with Jeremy Grantham or this one with Joan Diamond? And like he had answers

or opinions. So, of course, I was a little puffed up. And, you know, it's, I'm here in an office, often by myself.

My staff works remotely and I have ideas.

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