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No, you actually engage a lot more a lot more when it's this algorithmic feed of things we think you will love.

No, I I I think there's a lot of things to be careful about right now.

Yeah. So, when you learn another language, I think one of the most important things, one of the best predictors.

And And I would say if you're leading a team where it's really hard for you to use the product.

So at Meta, I interviewed as a manager, but I think at least for the first quarter.

Oh, I I I love this kind of look back in time. Yeah, like IBM, working on DB2, the operating system services team.

That's really important. Discovery means we're when we first got our phones, we were installing new apps all the time.

You know, even that which you'd think of course I want, you might not get 10 out of 10 people saying yes.

We have beyond a latent demand for social. It's lost the adrenaline.

Now, it might take longer to get the market to shift to it, but it's fundamentally different.

Everyone's like, "Tony, you're" and this was in the Valley. Tony, you're crazy. It's all about the internet.

The technology is in service of the customer, not we're going to jam the technology down the customer's throat.

And the stocks have gone nowhere in 25 years because it's an Xgrowth low margin commodity utility where they're selling.

It can make you the features, sure, but what features do you want? Who's your customer?

I mean, you know, joking apart, if you have any experience of professional services.

Okay, just a couple more questions. Something I've been wanting to ask for a long time is uh you've worked with some of.

So, Apple has been best-in-class at this. Um, there's a bunch of reasons.

I'm excited to be here. We're going to go in a bunch of different directions. I'm going to bounce around.

I that PR strategy just does not make any sense to me.

And that means use them for whatever it is that you do.

what I think is like it it can actually make the job better because for the data scientist you're now not dealing with.

Like you don't like you don't have to have meetings about stuff. You don't have mission misalignment. Like in most or…

And again, if you think it doesn't matter what the product manager who runs Helman's Manise thinks the purpose is, go…

And I won't go through all the technical details of like how they managed to get the cost. They had to hand roll thei…

Everybody has a company like that in their mind. I don't know if you want to say who it is for you. I understand. If …

Because August and Marie worked this out a hundred years ago and it has held so many attacks. In fact, I tell a story…

So check your math. People used to tell me Costco was an example that wasn't protected. So much so that like I was su…

Okay. I don't know if you saw this, but everyone was complaining of how they've gotten worse and they're they have al…