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All right, good morning folks. Um, before we get started, I had a hypothesis. So, let me know in the comments, but I think that these unedited like direct form videos do well because most of you watch on mobile or tablets or computers and sometimes TVs, but I wonder if like you just put me on like in the background like you don't need to watch anyways. And so, what actually helps is the continuity, like the verbal continuity. So, if I'm if I if you're not watching my face or if you are watching my face on the smaller screen, you can't see the details of editing. Anyways, that's my hypothesis. Let me know.
Anyways, what I wanted to do is answer a question that I get all the time and I have been very reluctant to answer it because um it it's often around investing and I was not I hadn't done the research as to like what are you allowed to to talk about in terms of money uh as an influencer because it's like all kinds of people like you know Dave Ramsey and stuff have talked about like you know buy this, sell this, blah blah blah you know but it's somehow passes as like entertainment. Um, and then you know, plenty of other people talk about money. So, I I finally looked into it and good grief, I've got something in my eye. Um, I finally looked into it and it's like you're allowed to do financial education, which is just like here are some general principles and you're also allowed to talk about what you do. Um, so that's what I'm going to do uh in terms of how do you prepare for artificial intelligence? How do you prepare for the things that are coming? And so what I've got is I've got four kind of overarching things. [snorts] Um, so number one is where do you live or you know the home or whatever or the city you live in. Number two is investments. Number three is jobs. And then number four is lifestyle and focusing on higher purpose. So um if you see me like glancing off screen a lot, that's cuz I've got my my little list down here and you know ADHD hands. So [laughter] with all that being said, um let's get like right into it.
And first and foremost, where do you live? So this is this is the thing that I think is probably one of the biggest decisions. Uh now if you're lucky enough to have a remote job then with the pandemic a lot of people like myself and friends of mine and other people realize like we can live wherever we want. We don't need to live in the city anymore. We don't need to live close to jobs. And society is still wrangling with the fallout of this choice of this change because a lot of companies are are having like RTM like return or sorry RTO return to office mandates and I think that in most cases that's just a pretext to fire people like a pretext for layoffs. It's like well if you don't come back to the office now some people genuinely believe that you know in office in-person work is more productive and in some cases it is true particularly if you have a startup or a small team that's very tightly knit then yes like all the dozens of casual conversations that you can have the rate of information flow is just so much higher but for large companies where your job is very well defined and you work you know based on projects and tickets and emails and that sort of There is no benefit to going into the office. I remember my last corporate job that I left um as the pandemic was winding down. Uh it's like you didn't even have a reserved seat in the office building. You had to go into a web portal, reserve a desk for yourself and you'd had no idea where it was going to be available that day and you'd have to go in and set up your So, it was like it was the most humiliating impersonal thing. And I just refused to go in. I'm like there's no point in being here. Um because one day I'm sitting next to the finance department and the next day I'm sitting next to you know an engineering department that has nothing to do with what I do. So there's really no benefit of coming into the office. Um so I just stopped doing it. Um and then I quit. So [laughter] uh anyways so what we see out there in the data is cities like San Francisco and I think to a lesser extent Boston but a bunch of the really big expensive hubs are like losing people like crazy. And a big part of that is because uh people are realizing that they can arbitrage where they live. So it's what's what's called location arbitrage. They can live somewhere cheaper and get a higher paying job remotely. Now obviously not everyone can do that. Many of you uh out there in the audience, some are students, some are truck drivers, some are teachers, some are retired, and some of you don't care. And but the point is if you start thinking about where you would prefer to live culturally uh or climactically or that sort of thing, that's something that you can do. And a big benefit is that if you move out of a high expense area, then you have lower cost of living. Of course, I'm the first time I made this point a couple years ago, some people got mad at me. They're like, "What if I want to live in the city?" And that's like at the time I assumed that if you wanted to live in a city, it was a form of Stockholm syndrome. Um, but it occurs to me that there are probably plenty of people who legitimately want to live in a city because that is the correct culture. The good news for you is that as everyone else leaves the city, you're going to have a lot more places to rent or buy in the city. So, the TLDDR, think about where you want to live because of the lifestyle that it affords you or the culture that it has or the climate that it has. And that's going to be something that you can start moving towards like now. Um and and of course like sometimes you know it's better to wait you know if you want to if you want to move to a city wait for the price to come down if some place is not available you have to wait. Um and then of course look at the market you know is is the housing market up or down or whatever. Um but uh you know a couple years ago it was just over two years ago now my wife and I moved to a smaller town and we love it here like big cities we do like people drive aggressively people drive stupidly in a small town like we know the grocery people that we talk to every day and we know the people at the dog park that we see every day and it's just like it has more of a village vibe and that is just it feels so much more natural. Um all right so that's where to live and you might say like what does that have to do with AI? It's because AI is going to break jobs as we know them anyways. And also like Yeah.
Anyways, moving on. Investments. So, here's the thing. Um I'm not I can't tell you what to invest in or why. Um I can tell you what my portfolio is and it's entirely dividend producing ETFs. Um and my strategy there is I don't want anything that I have to stress out about. Um the the advantage of buying a mutual fund or an ETF is that you never have to sell it because someone else is handling the buying and selling. And so then I just get the dividends. So that's the goal. Um now the that's that's the lowlevel like that's the tactical thing that I have done. The highle thing is that we're with with artificial intelligence and robotics and the decline of labor we're moving towards a capital-based allocation regime. So what this means is that right now and for for most of the last few centuries, wage labor has been the primary distribution mechanism of wealth. Meaning that you know the the the nation as a whole or the state as a whole or your whatever your region as a whole generates a tremendous amount of wealth because of industry and capitalism and that sort of thing. So then the question is who gets it? Well, the negotiation that we've had for the last couple centuries is that people who work get that wealth or people who own stuff get wealth. And for all of history, the capitalist class, whatever the capitalist class was, you know, back way back in the day, it was farmers like or not farmers but land owners um get the most wealth. So then what happens is as wage labor goes down, everyone needs to participate in capital more. And you know, of course, what a lot of people say, cuz I know that a many many of you out there have like nothing in your bank account or no savings or no investments. And so you say like, well, how do you participate in capital if you don't have any to begin with? That is what the book that I'm talking about or that I'm working on post labor economics is going to solve. And unfortunately, it's not you you cannot solve that problem at a and at an individual level. That is a CFIN task. And it is not it is literally not possible for you to build up a wealth portfolio that can sustain your life unless or until government intervention happens and the entire economic landscape happens which is why I need a book to do that is to show everyone this is what actually needs to happen. We need new policies and that sort of thing. However, if you are in a condition or a shape where you can start to invest or you can start to save, understand that the that the nature of the future economy is that it is based on capital participation. Now, capital like there's the there's the basic, you know, stocks, bonds, and rental properties. Um, that's kind of how most households build wealth, build capital is you buy real estate, you buy stocks, you buy bonds. Okay, great. Um, now one other thing that is going to come up is things like ESOPS. So that's an employee stock option plan. Many companies are transitioning to that. Some startups are transitioning to that. In England, it's called an EOT, an employee owned trust. There's a different term for it in Italy, but like France, Italy, UK, they're really kind of pioneering some of these like employeeowned things. Um, if you can get in on something like that, that would be a good transition because then you're you're a part owner of of the capital economy. Um, Dows, decentralized autonomous organizations. I have not found a single Dow yet that uh satisfies what I would be looking for. Most of them are still like like rug high rugpull risk. So I would not recommend I would personally not recommend getting into any Dows yet. I am not invested in any Dows, put it that way. And um and most crypto things out there are still scams. Um however, it does have the potential. And so you look at the places where where things like Dows are legally recognized like Switzerland, Wisconsin of all places and I think um uh is it Vermont? One of the New England states also recognizes them now. And also on the last thing on investments, it's not just by Bitcoin. Like yes, a lot of people have gotten rich just by buying and holding Bitcoin. that is great and it's I I do own some Bitcoin myself, but that is not going to generate income in the future. That is a that is that is an asset class to park your money. Um, if you want to read about it, there's a book called the Bitcoin standard which makes a really good argument for buying and holding Bitcoin as a way to preserve your wealth um rather than holding something like cash or treasury bonds or something like that. Um, and I think it's a very compelling book. So, uh, it's called the Bitcoin Standard and I can't pronounce his name. I think it's Sephidine as Amodus or something like that. I really apologize. I know I know that I butchered his name. Anyways, the Bitcoin Standard, he's on Twitter. Um, he's very active. Uh, and he's written a few other books, but the Bitcoin standard, I think, is his primary work. So, you know, that's kind of my take on investments and what to do with money. And yeah, if you if you don't have any savings or if you're living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, as I know many of you are, that really sucks. And that's why I need to work on this book uh to get it out so that the government and politicians and business people and lobbyists all understand that we need policies to get more capital into the house and into households and into individual owners. Um rather unless unless they want us to rely on UBI like the options are give everyone UBI which I think is going to be necessary anyways or give everyone capital which is still market like a market friendly result. you know, which which one do you think that the conservatives are going to want to do? Um, and honestly, I would not I would pref I would prefer not to rely on UBI. I'd like to have a UBI, but I'd like it to not be the only or even the primary source of income.
All right. And then so, um, next is jobs. So, a lot of people ask about like where do you where should I work? How do I protect myself? How do I protect my family? And um you know I've started I I I had a community uh that was you know it was rebranded. So post labor economics is the name of the community now. It was originally New Era Pathfinders and and you know at the at the time uh the kind of the kind of the the big wave of things was you know become an influencer like me and there's plenty of communities basically selling the dream. And I I felt like, you know, I I had a I had a coach at the time who wanted me to go in that direction because that's the direction that works right now. But it felt very very artificial. It felt fake. And and I don't I don't mean like fraudulent, but it's like there's there's a there's a term that I learned years ago, beware of the man selling the shirt off his back. Um, and and I [clears throat] I never really liked feeling like I was selling something to fans that I knew that or that I believed was was not achievable. And what I mean by that is in the attention economy, most people are not winners. And that's just a simple fact. Only the top 1% of content creators make a living doing it. everyone else. It's a hobby or it provides a couple hundred bucks of income. Most people don't make a living doing this kind of thing. And even some like really great hardworking people can't figure out how to make a living doing this. And it's just it just seems like it is like a roll of the dice. Like you don't know. It's it's it's not it's not just hard work. There's a lot of luck that goes into it. And like one of my good friends, Dylan Curious, he's one of the guys like he works so hard but like you know he had to like take a job. he couldn't he couldn't make enough money on his YouTube channel um and and and communities to make ends meet. And he's a he's an incredibly smart guy and he's very kind and very hardworking. So why why why did I make it and he didn't? You know, he's just as smart as me and he's like he's really good-looking. He looks good on camera and he's got the production value. So what's the difference? And it it as far as I can tell it really comes down to dumb luck at some at some point. Um, so you know when when people say, "Oh, you just have to become a content creator." It's like, "No, that doesn't work." And then you and then there's statistics coming out that are absolutely horrifying where it's something like 10% of all young women in America, and I think young women is defined as like between 18 and 27 or something like that are on only fans. And it's like, have we produced a society where 10% of young women decide that like becoming freelance porn stars is the best thing to do? [laughter] And that's not to pathize sex work. I think sex work is is perfectly legitimate. But when when a huge chunk makes that choice instead of a different choice, it's like, well, they're basically trying to parlay like one of their only indogenous traits, which is their body. Um, and I'm like, that doesn't seem that doesn't seem like a healthy society to me. I mean, it's healthy in so far as that they're free to make that choice, and that's perfectly great. Um I I I think that I think that individual liberty is one of the most important civic values. But um but why and anyways all right so but why does it work for some people? So the higher the higher order principle but behind what jobs do work and the higher earning jobs are the attention the experience the authenticity and the meaning jobs. So this is this is the fourth uh [snorts] paradigm. So in terms of economic paradigms, there's kind of this this three-part paradigm where at first it was extraction and manufacturing, which is mining and farming. Then it was manufacturing, which is making stuff, so factories and and producing physical goods. And then the knowledge and service economy. So that's the third the third thing. And right now in developed nations, it's 70 to 85% of jobs are service jobs. Uh so service industry is everything from food service to tax accountants to lawyers to IT firms. Most things are service um or most jobs are service even if it's in within an industry that sells physical goods. Um so however artificial intelligence and robots represent the biggest threat to knowledge work and knowledge work is presently the highest paid like job. Like if you're an expert database person, if you're an expert lawyer, doctor, whatever, the primary thing that you're selling is your knowledge and your your cognitive skills. Well, artificial intelligence is about to nuke that. So, if your job is based on what you know um or you know something that that the AI can do better, then like you're up the creek without a paddle. The other thing is if it's lowkilled labor, then it's also about to get nuked. So, here's an example is that uh you know, my wife and I, we have cleaners come twice a month um to help clean the house because, you know, when I've been living with chronic uh chronic illness for a long time, like I don't have the energy to do that. I have to put all of my energy into, you know, making content and making money. Um so, then it's it's better for me to use some of that time and energy to make money and then pay someone else to clean the house. Um, but that kind of job is like super super vulnerable because it does not take a lot of cognitive function to, you know, sweep and vacuum and do dishes. We do our own dishes, but you get the idea. Um, so being a housekeeper, um, that job's not going to last because here's the thing. You might say, "Well, Dave, it's going to be too expensive for, you know, someone for most people to buy a robot." You don't need to buy a robot. You need to rent a robot. So for higherend households, yes. Like one day I would like to have a full-time in-home robot that does the cooking, that does the cleaning, that helps take care of the dogs, you know, whatever else, home security. Um, can you imagine? The future is not that Terminator takes over the world. It's that like you break into someone's house and you hear you will be terminated. Um, probably not. You know, all kinds of legal things if you set your home defense robot to like murder murder mode. Um, anyways, side tangent. The point is is that uh you're gonna have at home robots either whether you own it or whether you call a service and instead of paying 120 bucks per time that you the cleaners come out because that's what we pay cuz we live in a rural place so it's a lower cost. um instead of 120 bucks, you know, every other week, it's going to be 40 bucks every week or less than that cuz you're basically just renting a robot from someone else and the robot doesn't have any wages. So, it's entirely profit for the for the owner of the robots. But this speaks to something that you could do when humanoid robots start becoming a thing. One, your your job or or your business could be I own robots and I rent them out. Why? because they're going to be cheaper than humans and and they don't require health insurance and that sort of thing. [clears throat] So, if you have a bunch of robots that can do cooking and cleaning and yard work and whatever else, then you just rent them out. Now, of course, that takes money to make money as I said before. So, that's not necessarily going to be something that everyone can do. So, then what other kinds of jobs are there out there that are going to stick around for a while? Because I say like attention, experience, authenticity, and meaning. So like I am in the attention sector where what I am monetizing is my ability to capture people's attention. You find what I say valuable and there's some there's some financial friction there whether you watch ads or jump on you know a paid paid community or whatever. And so that's how I am arbitrageing my time and energy and labor into something that produces value for myself by creating a mutual exchange of value which by the way I've had a bunch of new people sign up for my Patreon and I'm very grateful for that. Um including some some higher dollar like some superfan subscribers which really really helps. Um so thank you. Uh now that is just one kind of thing. Now, the reason that the attention economy, which YouTube and Only Fans and whatever else, and even on Twitter, cuz you can monetize Twitter now, and Elon Musk just cranked up, he like doubled or quadrupled the payouts on Twitter to really incentivize more engagement. Um, but again, that's still winner takes most. Uh, so attention economy is is if you're lucky, great, go for it. The experience economy is something else. So the experience economy is basically like as people have more free time and more spare money hypothetically they're going to be looking for more authentic experiences. So what is an experience? An experience is something like you know tour guides or massage therapists or psychedelic trip sitters or those sorts of things. So that's where someone is is there to help you facilitate a particular experience because the thing is no amount of AI or robotics can fully arbitrage away human desire for human experiences. Um yes like if you're on a cruise ship in 50 years expect that a good chunk of the crew is going to be robots but also expect that a lot of the entertainers are going to be humans that you just want to see human faces. Uh now some people will prefer to see robots. And of course in 50 years maybe the robots will look so human that we won't care. But that's 50 years from now. That's that's you know that's a little bit further down the line. And of course I know it might not be 50 years. There's plenty of robot makers that are making like you know adult type robots that are very well not very they're they're still in the uncanny valley but they're looking more human. Um so it might not be 50 years it might be 5 years. uh but in the meantime there are experiences that people just want human experiences and then there's the authenticity thing. So authenticity means something that just requires authentically human presence. Uh whether that is a politician, whether that's a therapist or those sorts of things. That is where the demand side is where people say I want a human there just because I want a human there. I would prefer to have a human there and I'm going to pay for that. And then the final final part of this axis is the meaning jobs. So meaning job is like philosopher uh you or or you know philosopher or priest or whatever. I kind of consider myself part of the meaning economy because that's really what I'm offering is I'm trying to help people make sense of things and and understand what it means. Now I'm not here to lecture you and say like God wants you to do this or you know whatever else. That's a particular type of meaning job but I'm more on the philosopher side. So I guess if you had to break the meaning axis down into two dimensions. there's the the religious and spiritual side and then there's the philosopher side and I'm more on the philosopher side. So that's one axis of jobs that are going to stick around. But then of course there's other things like you know uh copywriters are you know freelance copywriters are getting completely trashed. So what's happening? Well my wife is a freelancer and she started as a freelance copywriter after you know retiring from from her corporate job. So now she's a marketing specialist. But why does that have a job? And it's because she has the level of agency and experience and charisma to talk to a company, know what they need, and work autonomously. Now, will she be replaced by AI agents? It could be eventually, but a big part of what freelancers and consultants bring is that they they know how to use the AI. So, basically, when companies hire her, they're hiring her to be an AI user. Now, that's not to say that she does all of her writing with AI. Some of the some of her clients expect the done the writing to be done with AI. Um, but she uses AI to do research. She uses AI to generate artifacts. She uses AI to plan out videos for them and marketing campaigns and those sorts of things. So, she's an AI power user. And maybe that will be true forever. Maybe, you know, she's going to be the one using AI agents because she's going to she's going to know what to tell them to do. And this kind of goes back to the model of, you know, you don't have to necessarily own the AI or the robots yourself. you just need to get really good at using them and then you can parlay that into a business or freelance gig or that sort of thing. And another kind of job is like, you know, I just had a a nice fence put in cuz we moved and we have dogs and I realized the fencing contractor, he's completely immune to AI and robotics because what happens is once robots are good enough, he just replaces his workers with robots. And you still want the reputation of that dude who put in this fence and the the reputation is attached to his name and his face. He puts in good fences. So trust, reputation, those sorts of things are going to be the more valuable aspects of what what earns you money right in the future. And and trust and reputation are they're they're what's called nonfgeable goods. meaning that like I can't just say like, "Hey, all right, I'm gonna take my channel and I'm just gonna give it to someone else." Why? Because the trust and reputation is attached to my name and my face. That's that. So, it's like you cannot it's it's completely nonfungeible. You can't swap one human out for another. So, that's another thing to keep in mind about the future of work and that sort of thing. Now, when I say future of work and and I'm also the one who's talking about post labor economics, you you might say like, "Well, Dave, you're talking about jobs that are going to stick around." Yes, some jobs some jobs are going to stick around forever. Um, some will stick around for longer, but when you run the numbers, there is no future that I can presently model where the majority of people make money through labor. Um, in the long run, and when I say long run, I mean 10, 20, 30 years. I think by 20 years, it's all said and done. By 10 years, it's going to be the new reality where people are going to be looking for the door and and society is going to be in crisis. Honestly, I think that society will face that crisis before 2030 just especially with the way that things are ramping up in 2026 already. Um there's a lot of a lot of innovation coming down the pipeline.
So that's jobs. And then the final topic that I'll talk about is like higher purpose because if you're one of the people who does not find work or you know doesn't find meaning in work or doesn't want to own things and you just want to coast on you know the combination of UBI and and UBC so universal basic capital or or sovereign dividends or whatever comes down the pipeline. I hope it's everything. I hope that I hope that we all get a baseline set of dividends and and royalties and UBI and that we're all making like UBI should probably be about $1 to $2,000 a month and then you know another few several thousand on monthly dividends from from your local government from your state government or provincial government and then from your federal government. Um, so you should be getting multiple layers of like UBI and dividends and that sort of thing. And if you're happy with that and that should be plenty for many people, great. So, but then the question becomes, well, what do you do then with all that free time? And so that's about focusing on things like higher purpose and how do you recalibrate your life around finding meaning and those sorts of things. So, one one thing that has become popular is building a sense of agency. And I the first time I saw a blog post talking about like agency is the best skill for the future. I'm like whatever. Um but then I thought about it and I realized that like actually no this blog post was right because you know when I when I quit my corporate job you know that was that was a high agency move because it's like I'm going to build my own life the way that I see fit. Um but it was like the scramble of how how do I make ends meet? How do I become my own boss? But over time it's more like actually I can steer my life in any direction that I want. And so it was it was not something that was impressed upon me from the outside of like you know I happen to fall into being an AI content creator and AI consultant just because I found AI very interesting. Now that was itself kind of high agency but it was still the market that offered that to me. the market created a new niche saying, "Hey, AI is the next big thing and people need help with AI. Therefore, you know, I kind of fitted myself into that environmental opportunity." Agency is about creating your own opportunities. And of course, that sounds very like, you know, VC, tech bro, entrepreneur bro, you know, buzzwordy. But what creating your own opportunity means is is looking inwards to say, what is it that I really care about? And that's what this is the exercise that I did um almost exactly a year ago, which is okay, the thing that I really care about is post labor economics. That's that's the thing that I think is the highest leverage work that I can be doing with my life. And I committed myself to that. And a year later, I've got the book almost ready to go, which by the way, I don't know if I mentioned it, we're aiming for a April or May launch. So stick around for for that. We're we've got the team working on that. Uh I actually need to schedule a follow-up meeting with them. Anyways, so agency is about self-directed life and it's not just self-directed in terms of where do you live or what job do you have? It's what what do you do that you find meaningful? Um, and also building structure because uh and when I say structure, I mean like what do you do on a day-to-day basis? How do you plan your day? How do you know where to do and who to or where to where to go and who to talk to and those sorts of things. Um because without the structure, without an externally imposed structure of a corporate job, without the externally imposed structure of even content creation, because content creation, a lot of people will tell you like it is its own job. It's it's a job just like any other and it's more rewarding in some respects, but my work is even higher order than that. Like content creation is in support of or in service to a greater mission. So like what is your greater mission? And not everyone has to have one, by the way. A lot of people say like, "Oh, you're not you're not a fully realized person if you don't have a greater mission and you got a you got a, you know, wallet max or whatever the kids these days say." Um, for some people their greatest mission is to have a family. I remember I had an ex-girlfriend um from my from my 20s and uh I remember we we still we still talk every now and then and I remember like she was she was getting her degree and I was like, "Cool. what's what's what are you what are you going to do with that degree? And it was it was clinical psychology. And she's like, "Really? I just want to be a mom." And I'm like, "Oh, okay." So, like the the degree was just the the the path of education that she was on so that she can have work, but her real mission in life was to be a parent, to be a mom. Um, and as far as I know, she's still happy doing that. Um, and like that's a perfectly fine mission. In fact, I think that philosophically and spiritually and biologically, that's one of the highest missions that anyone can have is if your goal is to be not just not just have children because if you if you want children as a token, that's one thing like children are not pets. I mean, some people treat them like pets, but if you want to be a good parent, that is a very admirable mission. Um, and I think that more people are going to pivot to that um in the future when they realize, wait, I don't have to work every day. like I want to do I want to do what what my parents couldn't do. And a lot of people my age, a lot of people in my peer group are like, I'm not going to make the same mistakes my parents made. And then of course they joke, I'm going to make brand new mistakes, which is true. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone has blind spots. But even just that heristic of I'm going to do things a little bit better than the last generation did. If we keep that up for several generations, that is utopia. Utopia is not technology. Utopia is not external. It's not it's not the environment. Utopia is family, is good family, is having that tribe, having that village. That's what people yearn for. And honestly, I think that's why the Avatar movies do so well is because that's what they depict. They depict tight-knit community. That's what people want and that's because that's what we across the entire developed world are missing. Anyways, that's a different rant, different tangent. Um, let's see. I think I covered everything. Um, oh yeah. So the final principle that I'll leave you with is that for mission, for agency, the way that you find it, the the the starting point is is admitting to yourself the things that you are afraid to want. What are the things that you are so afraid to admit that you want because you're afraid of failure or you're afraid of judgment, do that thing, right? Like if you're if you want to be a rock star, if if music is your thing and you're just you're just so afraid to admit that to yourself because of failure, because of judgment, then the first step is admitting that to yourself. If you want to be a performer of some kind, whether it's ballet or porn or whatever it is that you want to do, then like admit that to yourself and just say this is actually what I want for my life. This is what I want to do or be or experience or achieve. And once you admit that to yourself, then alignment starts happening. And so alignment, I don't mean like in the AI sense. I mean alignment in kind of the the neospiritual sense, which is that the more you admit what you really want, the more opportunities and changes happen in your life that make that happen. And so an example for me is like when I got on YouTube, I just it was not a question of like am I good enough to do this? Will people take me seriously? is I I want to participate in artificial intelligence. That is my life mission. This is the coolest, most compelling technology. I'm just going to keep doing this until it works. Um and and I was never even thinking about until it works. I never had a goal. Um in fact, I remember telling people like, you know, people would show up and they're like, "Hey, can we hire you?" And I'm like, "No, I'm here for research." And then I'm like, "Okay, well, people are offering me money, so I might as well take the money." And then I started a Substack and and I was just like this is just a dumping ground for my thoughts. And people started offering me money and I'm like okay I guess I'll take your money, right? It was never about the money. It was about the AI. It was about the research. It was about the technology and the impact and and understanding what was happening. And it was and that is that is the kind of thing that is a mission. That is the kind of thing that is a purpose or or the thing that like you really really want. And that's what I've that's what I've held to. So, with all that being said, thanks for watching until the end and I will let you go and have a good one.