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  1. “No advice per se, just to guess a comment and a hope, which is that thank you so much, not just for having me, but for having this show and for doing everything that you do. And I really hope we have more people who operate out of such a place of just, I guess, for lack of a better word, idealism and conviction. And thank you for setting funny examples that way.”

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  2. “And also, I should just interject and say any Alan Watts piece, not because my writing about it is so great or it's not coming from a place of check me out. It's coming from a place of check him out. Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about in quite a bit. So I highly recommend any of those articles.”

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  3. “Well, since we talk about it so much, the aesthetic piece about the shortness of life. There was a piece I did a couple years ago which was less about it was not about a specific book just sort of things that I've been thinking about for a long time, this disconnect between purpose and prestige and why would you think so I forget what it's called I think it's called how to do what you love or some other how to find your purpose and do what you love and it was sort of an assemblage of thoughts on that from the various sources as well as my own and perhaps most of all A piece that I wrote last fall on the seventh birthday really of the site, which was about seven things that I learned in those seven years of reading, writing, and living.”

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  4. “He was super sweet about it, and he offered to connect me with this guy that he knew that I could hire to do a responsive design. And I always have this resistance to making these sort of technological improvements because then I feel like I don't want to be a media company. Like I don't want to be a buzzfeed. But at the end of the day, I, as a reader and as a sort of engager with that experience, was being annoyed by it myself. So now I'm in the middle of releasing like a simple responsive site that is actually easy to read on your phone. And so yeah, despair and frustration prevail again in innovation.”

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  5. “I love this. If so, try it out. And precision, too, has been that way. And actually, in the last couple years, I've been getting really annoyed. I mean, brain picking is a pretty sort of low-fi site, as you can see. Just very super simple, basic. But I've been getting annoyed that it doesn't load very well on my iPhone when I want to look at something or pull something up to reference or iPad. And my friend Scott Belsney, who runs Bhan, she's a great guy and he's been sort of a very generous donor just supporting. And one time he pulls me aside, that was like thinking in February or March and he's like, you know how much I love brain picking. But like the site sucks. We didn't say it in that way, but.”

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  6. “the PayPal tools to get the data out, basically. And I actually had Lisa pull all the Excels and whatnot. And then I did the tally to see. And to my surprise, the recurring ones, which are very small individual amount, actually were two to one ratio to the one-time dimension. And I don't know at what point it tipped over, but I think because of the scale and just how many people have these tiny, tiny donations that they contribute every month, I mean, that's such an active commitment and it's so generous, you know, that they add up. And my guess is that as time goes on, because the recurring ones have only been available for the last like two and a half, three years, whatever, they would become by far the larger sort of financial support compared to the single ones.”

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  7. “Smaller donations. So I thought the one timers were much more. And I'm pretty sure that must have been the case earlier on. And I've had the recurring ones. I've had the one time donation is for as long as I can remember, for as long as I basically needed to start making money for the site because, by the way, running the site cost me several times my rent, like all the costs associated with it. It's like crazy. So at one point, I got to a point where I had to make money. I said, I don't want to do ads. I don't believe in that. I'll have just donations. And I didn't even think of recurring ones at the time that was years ago. And then my friend Max Linsky, who runs longform.org, who are having tea, and he said, well, why didn't you like push the recurring ones more? Because it's working really great for us. And at that point, I had the option, but it was buried somewhere on my donation about paying or something. And so like, okay, so I put it in the sidebar. And that was, I want to say maybe 2011. And it started accruing slowly. And so this past year, when I did my taxes, I very reluctantly went to deal with all.”

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  8. “And by the way, the only reason these options are as they are is also the reason why I don't have an ad supplied site, which is I just ask myself, what would I like to read as a reader? Well, I would like an ad-free site. And how would I like to support that? Well, I'd like to have a few options, you know, just because I don't want to, you know, be sort of confined to something. And so I just pulled it out of the hat, basically, with these tears. And I've just left them on since I put them on. They seem to work, you know, whatever. Originally, my sense was that the one-time donation accounted for much more, but I'd never actually analyze it because I think I see the alerts that come from PayPal. And sometimes people would send really large one-time donations, like things that are totally humbling and enormously generous. And I think those kind of, you kind of weigh them somehow as more than the cumulative sum of the...”

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  9. “Well, I will preface this with a caveat that I use PayPal for donations and I can for the life of me figure out how to actually look at the data and get any sort of real reason, all of it is so anticlated, their export tool and such. And I'm not that interested. I would stifle days into looking into it. So I can tell you sort of my intuitive interpretation.”

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  10. “Really bad reasons to do things, and yet they motivate us a lot, or at least they sort of lurk in the back of the mind constantly. And it is a real practice to try to decondition that.”

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  11. “Yeah It's interesting because guilt is kind of the flip side of prestige, and they're both horrible reasons to do things. So often we would agree as humans, not just you and me or just anybody, would agree to do things because they sound prestigious in some way, you know, and equally avoid things because of the guilt thing or do things because of the guilt thing, but sort of this whole Buddha's thing about aversion of, you know, avoidance and aversion and making decisions based out of either fear, which is what guilt is the fear of disappointing somebody and then feeling disappointed in yourself, or out of sort of grasping for approval or a claim, which is what doing things for prestige is, I think either of those.”

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  12. “And moved by her work and respect it and love it. And that's how we became friend. But outside of that inner circle, I think acquaintances know that there's no such expectation. And when I do get such requests, it's a matter of, well, did the person do their homework and knowing what I actually think and write about? Because very often, I'm sure you get that too. You get pitch things that are just so outside of what you do, in which case I don't even feel compelled to respond. Because if they didn't put in the time to understand what I'm interested in, why should I put in the time to explain to them why this is not a fit?”

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  13. “For the kinds of people we want to be and surround ourselves with those types of people. William Gibson has a wonderful word for, he calls it personal microculture. And even when you said early on the kinship of spirits, I think that's so important. So which is a long-winded way to say that when and if those inner circle people put a book out, it's a guarantee that I will like it because it's who they are. And so then I'm more than happy to support it. I mean, the book that we started with, the Gratch and Sniff Guide to Wine, Wendy, the Illustrator, is precisely that type of person, somebody who I met through what each of us does. And she's now one of my closest human beings, you know. And so, of course, I'm going to support her work, but not because I'm being nepotistic about it, but because that's the pre-requirement that I.”

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  14. “Well, I guess the deal first and foremost by controlling not the outcome, but the cause, which is your circle of friends and acquaintances, I'm very selective about the people I surround myself with. And I like to think friendly to pretty much everybody that I meet. But my circle of actual friends is really close and really tight and people who are just when the sky crumbles are going to be there and we're there for each other. So with that in mind, I think there is a certain boundary that you have to put up beforehand to, I guess, manage social expectations in a way. And so for those people, my friend friends, in large part, I mean, I should mention that the majority of my close friends, including my partner too, are people that I have met just through what I do. So there's already the self-selection of sensibility and ideals. And, you know, I think we become a centripetal force.”

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  15. “Oh, yeah, I love that you're a blogger You know what I get very often, which I think is actually hilarious. People who don't even bother to read the name of the site, so they address dear Brian. The pinnacle of this was when last year at one point I opened my physical mailbox in my building, my home. And I found this bundle from the USPS, but like with an elastic band around it of mail for somebody named Brian Pickens who lives in Long Beach CA or used to, I guess. And somehow that stuff got forwarded to me because I guess the guy either moved and the USPS somehow looked things up. And I don't even know. It was such a sort of mystery and metaphor for what I deal with online.”

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  16. “Yeah, they do. And I'm so grateful. But the majority of them do, you know, some people who reach out with the intention of self-promoting, there's usually, you know, laziness to people who self-promote for the sake thereof, you know. So they don't, they don't usually follow, but people who actually care to have a conversation and to engage are very courteous and very sort of mindful of what I've asked, except for publicists who are never.”

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  17. “Well, I would argue that the benefit, the value I mean, what I do is kind of the antithesis of search. It's a discovery of things that ideally one would not have come across within the usual parameters of one's filter bubble, right? So sort of a lot of the people that I hear from, for example, just the sweet to use the Seneca example, actually just this week I heard from this guy who was an IT person trained as a physicist, end up doing IT and said the Seneca, the shortness of life piece really put everything in perspective. I've never really read philosophy, never been interested in it, never looked for it, but it just cut in the middle of what I'm struggling with right now in my own life. It gives you pause to hear that from people.”

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  18. “But again, I mean, I mean, I mean, this goes back to the same inner struggle of. I do want to be reading and writing for myself. So, why do I have the compulsions for so much of it out there? And I self flagellate over that because on some level, it does seem like a form of hypocrisy. But then I do think about the people that email me from India and Pakistan and South Africa and Korea and wherever, that actually that's how they connect. And I think if I'm putting in the amount of time that I do into what I do, even if I do it for myself, I might as well just harness that time anyway if it benefits somebody else's journey. You know, and so I do it because of that mostly.”

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  19. “Clearly not understanding the nuance because, I mean, a culture of news is, I say often a culture without nuance. Yeah. So that's basically it. Help me stay sane when I look at them. That's her tasks. If you lose my mind over exasperation when people's impatience”

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  20. “I also don't want them creating a culture that is antithetical to the very reason why I do what I do, which is a kind of faith in the human spirit. I mean, that's where I come from. I am a cautious one sometimes, but an optimist about the so-called human condition. And anybody who craps on that without having even given a chance to the thoughts that speak to those ideals, which is what my articles are a record of, then I will want them God, you know. So her instructions are just, you know, ban people who are Offensive to others sort of in a vicious way as opposed to just having rational discourse of disagreement ban people who are ignorant and have not read the thing and have some very scandalous or not even scandalous sort of Sensationalist take on it.”

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  21. “No. I don't really care what people say again to the point that if people have something of substance and urgency, they will reach out. And I'm then very happy to hear from actual humans and engage in the human dialogue, which I do. But I don't really care about the comments on Facebook. I just don't want them depressing me when I go on the page because I... Put my own thing under. Lisha doesn't put the actual post”

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  22. “But the main source of anguish is not being seen for who you are, not being understood. And this kind of reactive culture where people comment without taking the care to understand what you're expressing, who you are and what you stand for, it is so toxic. It is so toxic to leaders, to writers, to us as a culture. And I just don't know how to get around it other than just having instructed Lisa to be just merciless about banning people and deleting comments that are just not, there's no humanity, there's no patience, there's no thinking in them. So, you know, anybody who writes online, I think, feel similarly that this is kind of my home.”

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  23. “Know it's interesting because I think a lot about criticism and the notion of criticism and why it's so hard for anybody. And I don't think that people have a hard time with criticism because another person disagrees with or dislikes what they're saying. They really have a hard time when they feel misunderstood. The other person does not understand who they are or what they stand for in the world. And 99% of the time, and you actually touch on this in your conversation with Sam Harris where you say that his ideas are not as controversial as people think when they don't actually understand what they are.”

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  24. “Engaged with the thing. So people would comment on the basis of like a thumbnail image or the title, make really outrageously inaccurate comments, clearly not having read the piece. And this kind of snap reaction thing that I think social media to a large extent perpetuate, I can't deal with it. It's like a psychic drain. Like I can't even explain. It just, I can't.”

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  25. “Close to three, maybe, so more than tenfold in less than a year. I have no idea why. I've done nothing differently. I don't really enjoy Facebook. I do it reluctantly because I get a lot of emails from readers elsewhere in the world who actually use Facebook as their primary thing. And they're such sweet notes. You know, people who just are stimulated and inspired and moved in a way that perhaps they wouldn't be if they hadn't read that piece about some random thing that I read and wrote about. I think it would be selfish of me to just sort of disable Facebook because I hate it. But the points of it is that you have comment on there. And Lisa, my assistant, actually, that's something I delegated her a few months ago just to completely deal with them. I can't deal with them and not for any other reason that I have complete allergy to people pronouncing their so-called opinions without having actually digested or even in”

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  26. “They'll do it via email, behind their own name and not anonymously. And then, I mean, I do get a lot of emails from readers, and those are valuable, you know, but I don't really care for comments. Now, the flip side of that is that now that I have the Facebook page having something mysterious happened with the Bring Pickens Facebook page last fall work, it just started growing so fast I have no idea why.”

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  27. “I did originally, and then I was like, you know what? I kind of feel like her dog does. I don't really care to hear. I mean, I do write for me. I'm very gladdened by people who are in any way moved or touched. But the comments I was getting, I've been fortunate enough not to really get any, you know, trolling or anything like that. But they were kind of vacant or people trying to plug their own thing or spam. And it was taking more of my time than it was worth. And so instead of made my contact information very easily accessible. So if someone has something of substance and urgency to say, which is I think the two things that compel people to reach out.”

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  28. “People, when they see a date stamp, they sort of think, oh, this was like two years old. And it's really, you know, 2,000 years old. But a lot of academics actually use brain pickings to reference. So I constantly get things, this is another thing that Lisa deals with, like requests from textbooks for citations or, you know, whatnot. And those people actually need the date. So I've made it so that if you actually look, it's kind of easy to see, or I can just tell them when they write and ask me what the date is, look in the URL, but it's just not one of those immediate things that slaps you over the head like a newspaper front page, you know?”

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  29. “Yeah, so the reason for that is because I do think we live in an enormously news fetishistic culture. And the reason I do what I do is precisely to decondition that because we think that if something is not news and it's not. Hierarchy of importance to that, we think if it's not at the top, it's not important. And, you know, you would understand, you know, writing about Seneca, it really doesn't matter what the date stamp on it is. But I think because culture conditions are so much.”

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  30. “The thing is, if I am forced by circumstances to do a workout that is not my preference, I very much like to be able to do something else while doing it, such as listening to podcasts, which is what I do while I do wakes at the gym any And there are certain types of movements that it's just a hassle to have the headphones, and it's just like not great. It's true. So I actually carry a weighted jump rope with me when I travel in case there's nowhere to do sprints, which is my. Plan B for cardio and then plan C is just jumping, skipping rope.”

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  31. “Well, it would be pull up, but you can't always find a place to do it. So I just do usually elevated push-ups so my feet on a bench or bed or like a step or something and just push-ups.”

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  32. “It's changed a lot in the last year and a half I've prioritized body weight stuff heavily, not unintended. Was actually total inadvertent, this how language, how we think in language. That's so funny. I prioritize body weight stuff. And so I do pull-ups, push-ups, and that sort of thing. It also depends on where I do my work at. My building has a sort of gym, like, you know, one of those residential gyms, but I also have a membership at a larger, probably, I think the best gym in New York. I love it. But I'm only there a few days a week. So it just depends on where I do it and what I do.”

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  33. “Commercial organization, you know, I still have so much resistance to the fact that I even have to deal with these things. After that, Oscar Wild hypocrisy about audience and humanity, I guess, of the tension”

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  34. “Coordinating because a lot of them are organized by sort of student volunteers and they're kind of still learning what it means to schedule deadlines and advance notice. And so Lisa is sort of railing that. And another big part, I should also mention that the evolution of what I've been able to delegate has sort of organically happened. Originally, I just really didn't know what to give her. I felt like I had to do all of it because I didn't know how to explain it to her to do. But she's just a great learner and I'm learning to delegate more. But another thing, because my site runs on donations, I sort of make an effort to send handwritten thank you cards to just at this point randomly picked donors every month. And so I have her sort of export those names and emails for me and just prepare envelopes and all those types of things so that I could not spend too much time on the actual admin of the mailing.”

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  35. “A lot of it is, I guess, coordinating travel and things, but I am trying to really, I mean, I have this new issue at commercial conferences anymore, but to speak to students, because I think it's important and what it takes out of me, which is a lot, speaking, takes out a lot of me because I'm a writer and I also don't really recycle talks. I like to write something original. And when it's a commercial conference, it just doesn't add up to me what I get out of it because I usually donate my commission student to the local public library and whatnot. But with students, it is worth my time. If I this shade even one journalism student from going into Buzzworthyland, you know, after graduation, that's worth it to me. And so even though I've scaled back on the speaking speaking, I'm now getting like all these college requests. And so that takes so much time, especially.”

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  36. “The introduction was made by the person. So I had met her, at least in my assistant, I'd met her just socially many times before. And so eventually when the time came for me to consider We set up a meeting, we talked, and she was really into it, and she'd been reading brainpickings, and I made sure it wouldn't be too much on her plate because she's also, I mean, she is superwoman. Lisa's superwoman, she is the mother of two kids, one of whom is now her first year in high school, and the other one his first year in college. So she had that on her plate too. But she's very, like I said, very dogged, very sort of dedicated. And she was like, I can do it. I'd like to do it. And I was like, great.”

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  37. “Just a recommendation. She's been working for somebody who's a very trusted, dear person for a long time. So now she's both in us.”

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  38. “Well, she's wonderful. She's a professional sort of personal assistant that's had this type of job for about 20 years She's just so wonderfully warm and just generous person, but also has such doggedness about things and just work ethic. It's unbelievable. And you always have the sense that she's looking out for your best interest in the most magnanimous kind of way towards you, but also the most warmly no bullshit way outwardly.”

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  39. “It became non five things every Friday, but three things every day of the week, pretty long form in the thousands of words, you know. And I foolishly and naively thought that I could just have the same sort of operational framework despite the enormous swelling of just the volume of the writing. And that's unreasonable. It's completely unreasonable. At one point last fall, as the sort of seven birthday of Brain Pickens is approaching, my partner was just like played consider.”

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  40. “I know. And the strange thing, the disorienting thing is that I think we intellectually know that's not the case, that it's actually a lot of strength to be able to delegate and to sort of divvy up control according to a hierarchy of priorities. But on some sort of cycloemotional level, it is just deh to consider that you cannot do something on your own anymore. And of course, it's interesting in terms of how brainpicking's evolved, which has always been very organic. So the sort of eight year thing that has happened, it went from being a little newsletter that contained five links, no text, like five links to five things that I found very interesting. And then it went to sort of five links with a little paragraph about each about why this thing is interesting and important. And then it was not a little paragraph, but a little like one page piece. And then.”

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  41. “Actually Wasn't so much that I made the decision, and the decision was very strongly, lovingly, but strongly sort of pushed on me by my partner who one day said, you are using so much time on things that are just so menial and you should not. And because I was really stressing to a point of just driving myself crazy. And I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I always have been very independent. I moved away from my parents' house when I was 18, paid my way to school, lived always by myself, and I just had this Emerson like, you know, kind of self-sufficiency and self-reliance that to a point of pathology where it was to my own detriment. And the notion of outsourcing felt to me on some level, almost like in the admission of weakness. It's ridiculous. I think that's true for a lot of people.”

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  42. “Yeah, I mean, that's what a lot of people suggest, and what Kai, my profit, are actually asked originally, but I do not own Microsoft products on principle. And I just am not going to deal with it.”

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  43. “Oh, that's cool. I should look into that. I think that's what I have too. The work resume, I feed that work. I don't even know what that function is. I'm kind of, I mean, for somebody who writes on the web, I don't really, yeah, I sometimes only learn about things through a friend.”

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  44. “I mean, like I said, she's not very, I would say, tech savvy. I mean, I'm sure she's a wonderful learner, so I'm sure she would totally learn how to do it if I gave her admin access. But between that and the fact that I write in HTML, so I really don't like the WijiWig. I hate it, actually. I think it's just easier to do it via email because then she can like highlight the word and sometimes she would make suggestions that are more stylistic. And I would like to have the final say in those because very often I want to keep it the way that I have it because. Voiced. So I find email works just fine.”

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  45. “It's a very, again, we're sort of hacked together process, which is every night I email her the articles from the preview page on WordPress. I just copy that and paste it into Embody Email. And I send it to her and then she sends me the corrections via email.”

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  46. “It is on WordPress. I was going to make a joke about how the technology is called Corpus Colossum, but... The outdoor technology.”

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  47. “You cannot prove your own work. It just your brain just does not see the error that we made in the first place. We're the majority of them And people are kind of merciless. They think somehow that a typo makes you lazy or I don't even know. There's no kind of compassion for the humanity that produces something as human as a typo, right? Despite how mechanical the term itself seems, which is sort of ironic. But in any case, so yes, I have my Justin Pradman and my copy editor were just proofing.”

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  48. “The actual reading and writing, obviously, is just me. About 10 months ago, I have an assistant, Lisa, who's absolutely wonderful and she just helps me with admin depth that has to do with my travel or email or scheduling things that I feel is weighing me down so much. I operate so much out of a sense of guilt for sort of letting people down. And as you know, I'm sure when you get to a point where the demands are just incomparable with what you can even look at, then you kind of need to have help in order not to either go insane or live with a constant guilt over not addressing things. Oh, and I also have a copy editor, this wonderful older lady I hired to do my proofreading. She's great. That's all I can say. I think proofreading is really, really important and I'm confidently embarrassed if I have a typo, which, you know, as you know, as a writer,”

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  49. “Yes, it is. And so I'll tell you why it hasn't happened to me much. It happens to me occasionally, but that's a DRM thing, digital for listeners who don't like acronyms, digital rights management thing that has that is fairly new. So that is the case with more recently published books. But if you read the digitized version of, say, Alan Watts, it was published originally 40 years ago. There's no such problem unless the publisher now is like reclaiming rights and doing a whole new thing. But because I write so much less out of sort of newly published material, I don't run into it often. But you know, there is a way to very laboriously deal with it, which is you can still open that passage in your Kindle app on desktop, so Kindle for Mac for me. And it will let you highlight and copy those passages.”

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  50. “But there's got to be a solution. And the thing is, Evernote, I love Evernote. I've been using it for many years and I could probably not get through my day without it, but it has an API, which means somebody can build this, you know, and there's a way to like. I even thought, I mean, I was at one point so desperate and so frustrated, which I think is the duo that causes all innovation, you know, desperation and frustration. I thought maybe I should just save up some money and offer like a scholarship or like a Grand for a hackathon for somebody to solve this for me, you know?”

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