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But anyway, for Halloween that year, we went as clones. See if you can tell which one I am. I'd like to think he was the poor man's version of me, but I'm not entirely sure. He's probably worth a billion dollars now. He was pretty smart, probably did a startup or something.

Anyway, I saw a concept today in one of Owen's posts about what's called the third place. Have you ever heard that term? A third place. So your house is your first place, your place of work is your second place, and the third place would be like, I guess if you were in England it would be the tavern. If you were somewhere else it would be something else. Now my third place used to be my gym. You know, it's a place you could go to feel less lonely and maybe run into people.

But here's why I wanted to talk about it. I really think we need to design new cities around accidentally meeting your neighbors. Leaving it to chance just doesn't work. We need some way that in the normal course of business you run into people that you don't mind running into. You know, all voluntarily. Nobody's going to be forced to talk to their neighbors. But I've been looking into a number of businesses that I could start in my local area that would have a physical location, and I didn't realize that I was always thinking about them as the third place.

For example, I was think