Speaker unverified: belief

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…A thing that I think about a lot is sure, okay, you say people do X, tell me more. Why do people do X? Do people do X for a good reason? Convince me that X is the right thing for people to do here. I think, often, I come away feeling like I was not convinced. They said do X, we looked into it, and I don't see a reason why. You should always update on the fact people think you should do something. Often, there's a good reason for that. I don't want to dismiss that, but sometimes there isn't. When you think something is dumb, it's a good flag to look into it and see whether you're dumb or it's dumb. Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's the other. I think this is a case maybe of, I don't know. This seems basically going to be public anyway. No matter what we do, everyone is going to see this done. There's a number of people you can show something to after which it's not meaningfully private. I think that's part of how I felt about it. It feels like that ties back, in a way, to how you guys think about hiring and training your employees, which is like, no, you have to know both the technical side of things and the crypto native side of things, as well as the financial side of things. I remember in our conversation, you really said that it's very hard for you to know whether to trust someone's opinion because they don't have context. I think one of the things you do really well, both internally, it sounds like, but also externally, is give people all the context they need so that they can actually hopefully make sense from the data, and then you can decide whether to agree with it internally or how to communicate with it externally. Yeah, I think that's basically right.…

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