Welcome everybody to the Tech-Me Ride Home experience for Thursday, January 27th.

We are joined today by three amazing reporters in this space, people who cover the

tech world, startups, investments, and know a lot more than Brian or I do about some of these

things, especially given last week's episode.

We are joined by Natasha from Tech Runch.

We are joined by Katie Ruth from Bloomberg and also

joined us today.

So with that Brian, I will let you set this up and get us going.

Well, yes, before I do, Chris, how you feeling?

I know you COVID- did yourself last weekend.

So last Friday afternoon or so, I started to feel little like you know tickle in my throat and

by that evening it was like full-blown like okay I I have something and I test the next day and

turns out yes indeed I omicron got to. I was so good for all of the pandemic and I thought for sure I was going to skate scot-free but no.

And the first two days sucked. Actually what was most interesting to me being being, of course, a tech person, was that my aura

ring, like caught it. It knew exactly. Like, my sleep was shit, my readiness was shit, and it basically told me what I already knew. So I've been on the on the mend and as of today

my aura ring is reporting that I'm in much better health than I was before so so there you go. Yeah that screenshot you sent me of the report from your

or a ring has pretty much convinced me to get one because I was like oh wow

that really does tell you a lot of things and I will literally see it and I will say for those who

don't have this ring you know which is a wearable it did a good job of just

measuring my overall heart rate and body temperature while I was sleeping and those two things were both elevated and way outside the norm and so that's that was the big clue.

So yeah. I have an aura ring as well and after I got the vaccine and the

booster it was like are you okay? Yes. So for two days you know each time it thought it wasn't doing well, but then I recovered.

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