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…Chrome extension also is another one that jumps out at me as like, mine's probably different than yours, but there's definitely got to be. And I took this note from Zvi, too, but I still haven't acted on it because he's also got a Chrome extension that he uses to, I think, also collect notes and reformat and move things around. I've seen him mention that. His is probably more sophisticated than mine. Seeing the format of his newsletters, you can imagine exactly what he's doing. I'm sure that's a big time-saver. I have a bunch of little Chrome extensions. Every time I join a Google Meet, I need to switch accounts because it always opens on the wrong account. Then I always want to hide my own window, and then you need to acknowledge that your video is still being sent. There's just five buttons I have to click every time I join a meeting. I built a Chrome extension that clicks the five buttons for me and it saves me 15 seconds, three times a day. Took a couple minutes to write. It's awesome. So let's do that zoom out. I don't know this story too well, but your last company was acquired in 2021. Correct me if I get any of this wrong. And then you basically had created a better under the hood technology that a bigger company that had more customers wanted to use to rebuild its product for the future on the new and improved technology that you had developed, right? So then you became, in the acquiring company, responsible for actually making that happen. These projects I've never done one personally, but they're legendarily excruciating, right? Because it's like you got a zillion features. It's like I have a 100-year-old house, and I sort of feel like it's a similar thing where anytime-- I always try to use a light touch around this house because the second you peel one layer, you don't know what you're going to find underneath. And a lot of it's better off left alone. So that, I'm sure, was maybe a rewarding slog, but I'm sure it was quite a slog in many ways. How would that be different today? Would it be very different? A little different? All this is stuff that-- everything we've talked about so far, stuff we wouldn't have done before. But if you were going to go back and do that, something that you did actually do before that was a big priority, how would you expect that to play out differently now?…

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