Transcript: There's also this thing that I'm now extremely, extremely interested in, in the way of, we were doing it with Pasquale and Kristen and Dave for the Lingonberry brain. But I also wonder, like, about a micro social network. And maybe you can spin up new instances of this micro social network or something. But I absolutely love sending voice notes. And it is remarkably easy with the shortcut that I've created on the iPhone. And I bet that could be built directly into an app and made even easier. But what I love the most about it, is if I get a summary from someone, I also don't necessarily need to read the whole transcript. But I can, I can get this summary of what they've said and decide in that moment, like, oh, that's something I'm interested in. And the fact that it's between a small group of friends or a relatively small group of friends, knowing that because it's more for me a space of ideas, like I want to share this kind of thing into that space. And that's the kind of space that I wish to cultivate, ideally. And I don't know, like, I'm just curious, like what, how that turns out? What is that space? And how do we build this little social network for ourselves or a little small group? And I wonder what it would be like, even between like, say, Alex, Bailyn, myself and Chandler. And can I share the same voice note to multiple groups? Like, this is just like, generally the thing I'm thinking about. And I'm going to talk it out. I'm not going to write it. I'm not going to like, you know, I'm just going to talk it out and send it to you. And I'm not necessarily looking for a response. But I am trying to update you with my actual thinking. Not just like nothingness, you know? Like, I'm trying to think somewhat deeply and to get a quick little summary of that and then, you know, like spit it out, like I think is freaking amazing. So anyway, I might just like hack up a prototype because this doesn't even need embeddings. Like fundamentally, it doesn't need embeddings at all. So any, anyhow, like, I might do two things. Well, I have so much to do. I have so much to do. But like, maybe I can hack this thing together really fast. I'm just going to write out a quick plan. And if I can hack it together, I'm just going to like, like spin it up. And we'll give them names and like, call it good enough. Like, I don't know. I will need to figure out a few things. But anyhow. Yeah. Yeah.
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