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There's the Jeff Goldblum quote from Jurassic Park.

Yeah, but your scientist were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

And when I say that, it's mostly pertaining to the world of social media and the things that we're racing to build because we can.

And we can build it fast, we can break it, and we can think about it later. And we have never been in more trying times than now, and most people don't even realize it.

And I think that if we at least lay out what the battleground is and just assess what we're dealing with, I would not want to bet against humanity.

I think that people love to overcome adversity, and I think we're really, really good at it.

I think the problem is a lot of people just don't know what's going on. Like you've lived from its inception, like this whole generation of being online and not just being online, but having your life tied to these different now apps

that are manipulating you. And I want to talk about that because I think this is one of the

most important books that I have read and that has been written about the modern age. I mean,

it doesn't, you know, I don't think you ever really mentioned parenting in here,

but it is a book for parents.

It is a book for their kids.

It is a book of awareness.

And you're up against the might

of the most profitable and powerful companies

in the history, essentially of the world, essentially.

And modern, let's say modern world. And it's so important. I'm going to get this for another copy for my wife, for my kids, for everybody that works for me. Everybody's going to get a copy of this book. It's that, I think it is, it is so important. It needs to be on the, I mean, it's, Essentially, it's a, it's a weapon. And it's, I mean, it's awareness, but it's a weapon because you were essentially, I don't know what you say at war with, but there's a conflict with. No, no, no, that's perfect. That's absolutely perfect because I, I'm very, like, you know me, I'm very ADD in so many different ways. And Marcus Aurelius' Meditations was like the perfect first book for me to read

because I could read something and then set it down and then pick it back up. And so it was very

important for me to set tones of chapters that I could come back to. And so I have a lot of quotes in

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