it might have been the biggest reframe of my life. At about 12 years old, I was a stressed kid and anxious and stressed and worried about everything. And so I reframed my job. You know, when you're a kid, do you have a job? I mean, you might have some chores to get some money or something. But I decided to set myself a mission. And this is how I explained it to myself. My full-time job is working on how I feel, you know, my anxiousness or my worry. And what that meant was that I would put it as a higher priority than just about everything.

Now, of course, you have to get your work done. You know, you have to go to school, you have to do your homework or whatever. So those things actually lowered my stress because it feels good to do something and do it well. So I didn't mind doing the work. But I would make sure that I exercise and I tried meditation, etc. But my point is I decided it was my lifelong primary job and that if you reframe your primary job as working on your own impression of the world which causes you to have more cortisol or less, more dopamine or less, etc., it's your main job because if you get that right everything else is better. You can work longer, you can exercise better, everything. So I've been so successful at it that recently, you know, as I'm at that age where you evaluate your life and you say to yourself, well, how'd I do? How'd I do? I couldn't remember with maybe one exception a time in decades where I was especially worried about something, you know, where your chest is on fire or your stomach's going crazy or something. And it's not like I haven't had some challenges. I've had a few. Some of you have been with me along the way. You know exactly what challenges I'm talking about. But even through the hardest ones, I had developed so many sort of tricks and hacks to monitor my own sense of anxiety that I just haven't worried about anything in decades. So if you treat it as a full-time job, you can make incredible gains in just how you feel. But everybody's going to have to do it their own way, which is try lots of things. But don't. Yeah. And here's a bad idea. I always feel bad for people who need a vacation to set their mind right. I'm all for vacations, but if you don't have a way to make it right all the other times that you're not on a vacation, I don't see how your life is going to be great. So you really need to make it your mission to figure out what it is that relaxes you every day. All right, that's your advice for the day.

So Anthropic, the AI company, as you know, is in this lawsuit with a bunch of authors who say that it trained on their books and violated their copyright in doing so. And I guess they're suing for 150,000 per book for 7 million pirated books. And so if Anthropic lost, it might cost them something like a trillion dollars, somebody estimated, which would presumably put them out of business. And then this made me think, remember I predicted right in the beginning of AI exploding, I predicted that humans would find a whole bunch of ways to stop AI from growing to what it could be. Here's one, you know, that they'll be sued for copyright stuff. And I'm not saying that they shouldn't be sued. I'm just saying it's a predictable thing that will happen that the humans will slow down the AI. But also, AIs are being sued for helping people harm themselves. I'll just say it that way. You know what I'm talking about, especially children. So that's one more way that the AI companies could be put out of business, lawsuits. And then there's xAI is suing Meta because one of the engineers stole all the xAI code. So that's one way that their entire business models could become worth nothing if the only thing they're selling is the specifically trained models and their specific code and somebody steals the entire thing. Was that the whole company? I mean, if it became public or if it became public enough that their competitors could all get it and copy it. So that's a big problem. I don't know what they do about that because if it's an insider job, you can never stop it, can you? There's always going to be some insider engineer who can get access to it.

Then you got the problem that apparently students are using AI for cheating, mostly homework because that's when they're not being observed. But the whole idea of homework is now ridiculous because the kids are just using AI to do their homework so they can get on with life. Now interestingly that may not be bad because what might come out of that is that the schools will say all right forget about homework unless they give them homework which requires them to use AI so they learn how to use AI or something. But I remember several years ago when I had young stepkids in school, there was a big push locally to stop giving crushing levels of homework to kids every night, which is what they do in the local school system. You know, if you have a school system that is graded as one of the top school systems, there's a really high chance that they're