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ats. All right. So now you tell me what they have in common. You said charisma. Charisma is true, but it's not what I'm looking for. You're right about the charisma, but I think there's something even bigger. Confidence. Look at that. Confidence. Oh, you're so close. You're so close with confidence. But there are some other words I'm looking for. You ready? Here's the reveal. They're fearless. Th…

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got to be the hardest, most humiliating, you know, punch in the gut thing if it doesn't work out that night? And nobody kills it on the first night. So if you look at what a lot of these people had to do to get to the position where we all know their names, it's very impressive. And every one of them is fearless. So I love that. The rest, it's up to them. They'll have to come up with good ideas for me to like the rest.

Apparently Apple has made some decisions about their AI and rather than build one, they're going to rent one. So they checked on a bunch of AIs and I guess they decided on something called Google's Gemini. Something called, that's just what it's called. It's Google's Gemini. Anyway, so that's what Apple will have for its AI. We'll see. At least it's something. Every time I use, I don't want to say the word, but Siri, every time I think is it 20 years in the past? Why am I even looking at this? All right. And they swear they'll keep the data private and blah blah.

Here's an idea which I can't decide if it's awesome or not, but it might be. You know, every once in a while you'll see an idea that you'll say, "Huh, that was really clever." Believe it or not, it's coming from San Francisco. So as you know, San Francisco went to hell and a lot of shops closed, which made downtown look a lot less inviting than it could have been. And so people have tried to come up with an idea. How do you quickly turn all these vacant stores into something that people don't mind being around? And they came up with this program called Vacant to Vibrant. And I think, you know, I only looked at it quickly, but my understanding is that for very small amounts of money, they were sort of helping people set up a store within an abandoned store. But they would make it vibrant. So they wouldn't go too hard on the corporate looking, well, we better add some marble to this anything. They just made it look fun, I guess. And so there are 33 of these popup stor

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es. That's what they call them in 23 downtown storefronts. So basically it's just a cheap way for somebody who's not already established in the business to just start a business with their help without having to worry too much about the real estate cost or the look. Apparently they found a way to make it look pleasant so you wouldn't mind being around it. So I don't know the details. You could eas…

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