Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Well, last week we were recording after you got off a long flight.

We are now recording after I just got off long flight, so I had to match your hustle.

Yeah, calm is a bitch sometimes, huh? Hey, you know what? We said we're back. We could both now say

we are committed to being back. There we go, indeed. So this week was interesting.

As I mentioned in my daily update yesterday, I was actually in the States.

I had a few personal things to attend to, and it worked out that Microsoft was holding an event

this week for a number of journalists that I was able to sort of tie the two together.

It's like this big game of Jenga.

Whenever I need to go back to the States, I try to see how many things it can pack into that trip as possible.

In November, I'm like, oh, I need to go back in January.

And then I got an email from myself, like, oh, it's perfect.

I'd love to do that.

So it worked out.

Went there.

They had an all-day thing there. a few other Microsoft executives. And it was interesting. I put up a transcript of the talk he

game, which is a little dense, probably a little hard to sort of get into. But I thought it'd be,

you know, worth reading if you're into that sort of thing. And then also was still writing

trajectory, of course. And I think there's actually a surprising connection between the two things.

So maybe we can get into that and see if we can tease it out.

Yeah, before we do, I mean, maybe you're actually up on me on this whole travel thing, because I was coming back from a holiday in Australia and you sound like you're coming back

from the States having a jam-pack schedule. So credit to you. Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

But your flight was longer. Yeah, that's possibly sure. So I wrote this week about

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