l colony. You know, what happened to her was obviously a tragedy and completely unfair. But we've got to be careful. Let's maybe elevate heroes who haven't recently broken any laws. That would be cool. That would be cool.

Okay, I think I said this before, but sometimes when I like things I just say them twice. I keep thinking back about the meltdown of the crypto exchange FTX and how many people — celebrities and rich people — had believed that they were real before they melted down. And one of them was Kevin O'Leary, who was famous for being on Shark Tank. And I swear to God, just before this FTX thing melted down, I was looking at Kevin O'Leary's stuff on social media because he's very interesting. And I was thinking to myself — I was actually feeling a little bit jealous. And the jealousy specifically was, how does this one guy keep making all the right choices like investments? Like, what does he know that I don't know? Right? Is there something, some extra facility? Does he have an extra speed or something he can do that I can't do?

But knowing that he lost millions of dollars and was even a paid spokesperson for the FTX thing, I really feel like I would not have fallen for that. Like, I don't know. Somebody offered me to be a spokesperson, I don't know, maybe I would have said yes if it was a big paycheck or something. But I'm feeling a little superior now. I'm not saying for sure that I could have outperformed Kevin O'Leary on this investment. I don't know that. But am I wrong that it feels good when people who look like they're almost godlike in their abilities do something as ordinary as that? Like, that's just an ordinary mistake. It's very... I honestly find it motivating in a weird way.

The reason I found it motivating is to know that no matter what level you are successful, you're still ordinary. You're just still an ordinary person who can make ordinary mistakes. So to me it makes success seem more approachable. I've said the same thing about people who meet famous people. There are two of my co-workers who were in cubicles next to me when I got famous doing Dilbert. And I was a published author at the time. And so my co-workers got to see me go from, you know, guy in a cubicle who was doing no better than they were to something that looked like more successful. Soon after, two of the people who were actually adjacent cubicles at one point also wrote and published their own books.

Now, I'm positive that they took that challenge on — bo