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implementation, right? So implementation makes you the richest person in the world and should. And should. That's all deserved. However, imagine if I can wake up in the morning and say, "You know what, I've got an idea for an app. Form a company, AI. Write that app and let's test it with a few people." And I could actually just come up with hundreds of ideas over the course of maybe a few years,…

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all the creativity. So we had to come up with creativity and solutions on our own. So I believe my generation developed some skills for creativity if only because we sat there alone a lot and not looking at anything.

Do you know how much time I just sat there not looking at anything or doing anything because there wasn't anything to do? Like just nothing. I used to sit on a wall when I was a teenager and pick up the little sticks, the twigs that fell off a tree, and I'd watch the traffic in my small town which would be one car every five minutes. And I would take the bigger sticks and break them into smaller pieces. And when I was done with that I would get another stick and I could do that for an hour because there was nothing else to do.

I would be in my room trying to spin a basketball on my finger because I didn't have anything else to do. I learned to juggle. Just nothing else to do. But now I've been immersed in technology. So I was old enough to have a brain that was created

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pre-technology but I was young enough that I was completely immersed in technology in my whole work career. So that's unique. And now I'm still young enough, but just barely because you know I'm really past my expiration, but I'm staying healthy so far. I'm one of the people who has a full creative structure in my head and I've got enough facility with technology that I should be able to be one o…

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