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be that, but it's probably Venus because that's the brightest one that would be in that part of the sky. And so I said to it, because it chats with you, you don't have to touch another button, you can just keep the conversation going. So I said to it, are you saying that Venus is the shiny one? And does that mean that the other planets would be experiencing Venus envy? And it laughed at my joke a…
← Previous segment →ybe if you go meet some people, apply for some jobs that are above your level, try to build something in your garage just to see if it works, take a few classes to build your talent stack, move to a place where there's more opportunity, get involved with an industry that's growing quickly instead of shrinking. Yeah, you can change your luck. You can absolutely change your luck.
Now, not in any moment and not in a specific way, but you can go where there's more luck. That was exactly my strategy when I graduated college in upstate New York and I looked around and said, if I stay in upstate New York, what kind of luck would I have? Well, I might get lucky with a cow and that's about it, because that's what there were in upstate New York. We had cows and then there were people who had low-income jobs. Cows and low-income jobs. Middle class, basically.
So I said to myself, where could I go where basically there would be luck all over the place? And the answer was California, and then specifically the Bay Area. If you plop yourself in the Bay Area and you've got talents, you're going to do okay. Doesn't matter who you are. You just have to go where the luck is. But you also have to be prepared, right? You need some education that's r
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elevant to that. All right, so go find your luck. That's your advice for today, I guess. Apple is settling a lawsuit that has them admitting that their digital assistant, Siri — I don't want to say it to trigger all your phones — but it was in fact listening to you even when you didn't activate it and even when you didn't know it was listening. It was doing exactly what you worried about. Is my p…
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