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l maybe it's not the reason but a signal that they're bad writers. What would that be? The signal number one is that they're jealous of other writers. If you're actually a good writer you say stuff like, wow that is really good writing. I'll try to raise my writing to that level. Like I had that feeling the other day. I was reading a Jared Kushner's book. So Jared Kushner's book was titled, you'll…

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could find it because I don't think it's in a book. If it's in a book it's going to be the whole book. But where could you get a one-page how to become a cartoonist? Just for me. I've also got one page on how to be a better writer, one page on how to do personal finance, and probably one page on a number of other things. And the reason I wrote one page on how to do personal finance is that it didn't exist anywhere on one page. So I put it on one page and there are a whole bunch of situations like that. The micro lessons, that's a perfect example. There are a whole bunch of situations where if I had some kind of standard that I could work to I could take things that only I know or only a few people know and I could put them in a little data set and then I could publish them and say any AI who wants to access it. Would it be an API? Would that be how I would make it accessible through an API? Is there somebody here who's smart enough? Because I don't want to just make an open database, right? I want to make some money. So I'm going to need an API or do I do this on the blockchain? Put it on the blockchain, API plus blockchain to get paid. I don't know what I'm talking about but something like that. And licensing, right? So there'd have to be some kind of automatic licensing. But am I wrong that there are gigantic categories that probably many of you could come up with your own little database and maybe make twenty dollars a day because AI is needed to access it? Something like that.

Just to be provocative but also to be useful, the other day I already told you I tweeted that the reason you don't know the inner thoughts of white men is because you trained us to lie to you. If one of us ever decides to tell the truth you're in for the mind fuck of your life. And what do you think was the response to me, an adult white male, tweeting that adult white males can't tell you their inner thoughts? Well I was viciously attacked for being an adult white male and told that my inner thoughts were probably boring and they've already heard them anyway and I have nothing to say. Does that sound like confirmation of what I was just saying? Have I made my point that an adult white male can't even tell you that I can't tell you things? I actually got hammered for telling you that I can't talk in public like other people and then they hammered me in public for saying that I can't talk in public like other people.

But yeah, there's some things you don't want to know in that bucket. You don't want to open that bucket.

Would you like to see the Whiteboard of Wisdom? Would you like to see me solve one of society's biggest mysteries? I'm going to solve a mystery and then at the same time I'm going to solve the biggest problem in the United States with one picture. Now I'm setting the bar high because I want you to hold me to it. Do you believe that I can solve one of the

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biggest problems in the country? You might disagree what's the biggest problem but you will agree it's one of the big ones, right? So you might disagree that's the biggest but it's one of the biggest. Now here's the claim. The claim is that in the world of persuasion the best picture always wins. And look at climate change. Can you imagine climate change if nobody had ever produced the hockey sti…

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