Hamilton Helmer: preference

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…That sounds like hell. I'd say my passion, and I think probably Chenyi aligns with this, too, is getting the theory right. It's very satisfying and extremely hard to go through and figure out how this all fits together. Of course, that's how you get to simple but not simplistic. It's the only way you get to simple but not simplistic. That's the satisfying part, but I don't know the idea of writing another book. It scares the hell out of me. Yeah, it doesn't help when the theory is never done. It's funny. I think earlier you mentioned, the last time we talked about platforms, it doesn't feel completed. The truth is it will never be completed, and it's always in the works. Nowadays, we got a lot clearer about it than a year ago, but it's always in the make. We'll think about something else, and it comes back to platform. We're like, oh, that's the missing piece. I realize it's actually vertical integration. We were confused about the whole scale for a very long time. Now we're like, oh, that's what's missing. The communication strategy is always a difficult piece as well. I bet the two of you spend a lot of time on each company that you do an episode on. It's things like that. Whenever you want to do an example, you're like, is this really true? Then you have to go take it all back and be like, am I just miss perceiving what this really is about?…

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