't know, several years now, probably at least once a day I've said to myself, you know what, I should sit down and I should dedicate a whole bunch of my time to writing up what the drinking bleach hoax was, how it was executed, and really do a good job on it. So yesterday I fell asleep working during the afternoon, which is not uncommon. I woke up next to my laptop, as I often do in my man cave, and I really don't sleep enough. I think that's probably the bottom line there. And I felt all inspired suddenly and I said, darn it, I'm going to write this up. So I put three hours of the most inspired, best writing of my life and I wrote up the whole bleach drinking hoax. And if I'm being honest about my own work, it's just some of the best work I've ever done in my life. After years of thinking about it every day and thinking I've got to do this for the world and it could change the course of history. And when I was done I looked at it and I said, damn, this thing is going to be super viral. Like everybody's going to read this. It's going to uncover the entire technique of creating hoaxes, tell people how they fell for it, show them very clearly that it was a hoax. And it was going to be one of the three tentpole hoaxes. And when I was done and I hit publish, there was a technical bug that ate it and it's gone forever.

So sometimes the simulation has its own plan, apparently. Do you get a preview? No, it's gone forever. It's literally gone. Just a technical problem. And I don't know if I can do it again. So here will be the interesting part. I tend to think that things like this have some kind of a weird purpose to them because I can't think of the last time I lost a document. Do you remember the last time you lost a document after you'd finished it? It's almost something that doesn't happen in the modern technological world. Very rare. But it's definitely gone. And I thought to myself there must be some reason I'm not allowed to do this now. I don't see any specific mechanism to make that happen, but it's really a weird coincidence that the most important thing I've written in years, by far the most consequential thing that would actually have put a big dent in the whole world, disappeared. I just don't know how to explain that. It's just such a weird coincidence.

So here's what we'll watch for. Does it mean that I was meant to rewrite it better? What do you think? Is the universe telling me it wasn't good enough and I have to do it better because it's that important? Or is the universe telling me don't do it? Or is it nothing but a coincidence? I don't know. I don't think the human b