Transcript: One thing I found about surfing yesterday is paddling at some point, and I probably had the feeling of, I'm a pretty good paddler, because when I'm on a longboard, I move really fast. And I was also catching waves so often yesterday. And something occurred to me while I was paddling, and it occurred to me that the thing that I think I'm the best at is the thing that I'm also probably the worst at in some ways. And what I think I'm the best at, in my own mind, is probably working with computers. I'm fairly adept at using a computer, generally speaking. And then I also realized, well, in some ways, I'm quite bad at it in the same way. But if I'm so good at using it, well, wouldn't the goal be to have other people be able to use it as adeptly as I can? And I don't know if all of that necessarily is teaching, rather than being able to express the computer into a new form that is more accessible. Many, many folks yesterday were struggling to pay for their bid on the charity auction. There was a struggle to even see who won the charity auction. And we're having to have people navigate user interface when the question to answer is, what is the list of people who won the items in the charity auction? That's the question that you're trying to answer. And to me, the answer to that question does not need to be point and click. Like fundamentally, that's what the computer was trying to do. And same thing with checking people in. And all of this is just like, it seems like it should be easier than what it was. And for me, it's like, well, I can see the magic in the computers because I know that is possible. I know that is possible. And in some way, my goal is to be able to express that and do it. But I'm not good at that right now. And I will be brutally honest with myself. I'm not good at that right now. And that's the thing that I need to work on the most is effectively trying to express. Express the capabilities of what computers can do. And that should be the norm, not something that only developers have access to. That's kind of what I'm talking about is like the magic of computers. And finding those things that are applicable in every person's life. And again, every person I believe to be quite unique. And there are some ways that we will use computers similarly, for sure. But there's also many ways that they will be different. Because each of us has different goals and aspirations on the whole. We are interested in different things than each other. So the amount of questions that we could ask is extremely varied and nearly infinite. And that is kind of the problem to be solved.
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