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…Yeah. If we zoom out, we're living through history right now, the amount of change. And this is unprecedented. The industrial revolution's always the metaphor people use, which is accurate, maybe crazy or maybe not, but that's the interesting part. What an interesting time to be living through. Elon had this really interesting way of describing it, "We're definitely living in a simulation if we are alive right now when we're about to start building data centers in space, and AIs are going to be as smart as human brains." What are the chances you are alive at that moment? Which is probably, okay, maybe some higher intelligence is simulating the most interesting time in history. I don't know if that's good or bad, but- Listen, I have lots of respect for Elon. People like Elon have chosen to focus on the universe and what's out there and the laws that govern the universe and that's their focus. I became a psychologist by academic training at least because my focus has always been on people. And if I had to share a closing thought to wrap up all of this research, I would say that having the most advanced AI and the access to the best models in the world won't determine whether your organization succeeds. We have to remember that underlying all of this stuff are people. People, we as people are going through the most massive shift and changes that we ever have in our lives. And it's people who are feeling excited and exhausted and hopeful and scared often all at once. And we're all taking part in crafting and building this future that we hope still has a place for us in a few years. And so, I keep that in mind all the time. It's people driving these innovations. It's incredible people building these technologies. My focus will always be on the people. And I hope that if you're out there watching this, you take care of yourself, you touch grass, you take a moment to reflect on what you want for yourself in your career. And you remember again that it's fine to feel all of the emotions, and you should just do whatever works for you to get through this wild period in the tech industry. So kind of building on that, you spend a lot of time thinking through the results and what people can actually do with this data. Because it's one thing to just report, "Here's what people are feeling." Okay, cool. What should people do? So there's a really important section at the end of the report that we should spend a little time on, which is just where do we go from here? What does this tell us we should be doing if we could do anything to move ourselves basically into a happier place?…

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