I think, last year, one of my favorite books was "The Power of Kabbalah." And the concepts always end up being super-- And I'm at that place in my life.
edge of kind of current work environment, bleeding into the future of work environment, somewhere like Google, as it might pertain to a skill like creativity, and really get a chance to observe how people at that place leverage that skill. And you're not just looking at what do they make or what do they do?
So what is giving up and what is just deciding to do something else? Then you arrive at that place of passion.
And I should say, Umar did his main training there at the new base in Sildi. He spent almost a month at that place . And because it's 1500 to 1600 meters above sea level, man, it's tough to train there. And And the thing is, when you spend about three to four weeks there, you just have more oxygen in your blood, you have more
But, yeah, to just see an older lady have a little bit of fun and excitement, that's one of the nice things that this musical has given us. And it really sits right at that place .
and embrace my identity. I know that not everyone's at that place yet. And I think the goal is to get everyone there.
Oh, the transistor came out of Bell Labs. So this book is an extraordinary look at that place and the people within it. And one of the people who is profiled throughout the book is Claude Shannon.
and I'm not saying that. But for whatever reason, at that time, at that place , I realized I would never think like these people. Because I did not see it.
For example, employment. According to the Society for Human Resources Management, somewhere between 87% and 92% of employers conduct criminal history checks on individuals who are seeking to work at that place of employment. Many of those result in disqualifications if there is any mar on one's record, regardless of the recency of offense, or the severity of the offense,
Do you want to guess? I mean, I'm not at that place where I'm bored or where somebody else could run it yet.
My first theater show that I did, I was playing like, the younger version of the gangbanger in the play. And it was great, and I got to tell you at that place they were doing a great, nuanced story. And I was like, there's some levels to this.
even if things had been going really well for me, even if I'd had like a great father and a mom who didn't die at 45 of cancer, all of these different things that sort of combined to get me at that place in my life of despair that I was at, I would still have had to figure out who I was.
The overriding thing in our discussion-- our end user was Grandma. And you can go off to the other NASA sites that have the raw data for the rover at that place in time.
it all. It's adjusting to your friends, like, hey can we go here? This would be really fun. So kind of a more neutral territory or just going there and finding the best things for yourself at that place . And then Thanksgiving -- but basically it's like chapters. So I don't want to bore you right now.